Although Thanksgiving at my mother’s house usually begins with butternut squash, this year, I thought we would start in Brooklyn with cauliflower from the farmers’ market, with the local markets as the beginning for all of this holiday about food. Imagining orange and purple cauliflower I found at Union Square Greenmarket swirling in a soup, [...]

On Sunday morning, I followed friendly people up a flight of stairs, to a farm on a roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The 6,000 feet of garden still held the remaining chard, glowing in the morning sun, and baby purple lettuces I bent to inspect—and later, I left with a bag full of tiny, soft leaves. [...]

What I have on repeat at the moment: not the newest news, but a few new to me, including the last found tonight after talking to my friend Andrew. My favorite new band, Fitz and the Tantrums, included at the end. This podcast is in honor of Andrew’s new gig, David’s move to Los Angeles [...]

 

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Do you ever crave colors? Tonight, I turned to the stove knowing only that the pasta began with purple. Soon, slender purple kale stems slicked with olive oil rested on top of strands laced with minced raw garlic from purplish paper shells, roasted cauliflower, and Italian tuna packed in oil from an oblong tin, a [...]

It began with sandwiches. My fabulous friend Laura lives in Venice, California, near Gjelina, where we ordered the finest chicken sandwich with anchovies I’m likely to encounter and a BLT with a fried egg. And so began five food-filled days in Southern California as I relaxed into the sound of the ocean you can hear [...]