Waiting for us last Monday morning, at the bottom of the case at Spokane’s Donut Parade, were warm huckleberry doughnuts. Not overly sweet, the cake doughnut had a crisp bottom crust and soft interior, a good beginning to a drive around the city. For our last morning on the road together, we decided Santé Charcuterie [...]

As Kat and I drove out of Wyoming, we noticed the bright sails of windsurfers in the Palisades, and tempted as we were to join the fun, we drove on until Spencer, Idaho, with its many little opal-and-pop shops, including one with our favorite sign of the trip, Sue’s: Kat was rocking bellbottoms, and we [...]

If I had to pick, Saturday would be my favorite day of the road trip, beginning with the town of Greybull, Wyoming that looked so like I imagined a small western town might, and we continued on in the early hour past the Bureau of Reclamation on our way to a trading post, with horns, [...]

The morning following the PopTech salon, Kat and I woke early, threw our bags in the back seat while the rain urged us out of Chicago, and I happily unwrapped a box of wonderful chocolate from Portland’s Cacao that Kat brought to begin our trip (she usually recommends chocolate for me based on country of [...]

A few weekends ago, I was poaching an egg in my Brooklyn kitchen, and the poached egg on top of an egg scrambled into lemony sorrel over toasted brioche slices looked a little different than the breakfast sandwiches my wonderful friend Fil and I found a few days later, at a grill hidden inside a [...]