Last night, I tried bacorn for the first time: little bits of bacon with a homemade caramel on the kernels…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Just before I left for Linz a few weeks ago, my wonderful friend Mike of RoadTrip Nation was in town, and since Roadtrip Nation puts college students on the road [...]

In the key of B. My friend Holly wrote me tonight that she took the same beets I found at the Coral Gables farmers’ market on Saturday and made a beautiful carrot-beet-shallot soup and folded the beet tops into an omelet. Inspired, I took out my guitar (I know, story for another time) and decided [...]

Let’s rescue egg salad from a scoopable deli fixture. Simple food, my friends. I dressed butter lettuce with oil, scrambled an egg and fried another, so the yolk breaks onto the leaves and completes the dressing. (I also fried some bacon because it’s Friday.) Note: Salad is originally from the Latin word for salt, so [...]