As part of the faculty for the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program (they are an incredible group) that is brought together before the PopTech conference, I am staying a little above Camden, Maine, near Lincolnville Beach. In the morning, it is quiet around our wooded cabins and quiet on the beach. Yesterday I drove to [...]

This morning, insouciant pink and white flowers at the Union Square Greenmarket defied the heat of the coming day, and nearby were two curiosities: refreshing Mexican Sour Gherkins—a type of heirloom cucumber that sours later, but these have a sweet pop to them now, and for something slightly different, corn shoots sprouted from popcorn kernels [...]

Last night, the heel of the peasant boule proved too stale for spreading with homemade butter, so I crisped a few slices of bacon, then a few slices of bread in a pan, setting them aside to cool with a beautiful heirloom tomato, a shallot, and a baby leek. Panzanella, the cheerful name for an [...]

Clever farmers’ market vendors like Evolutionary Organics hang informative, happy little signs introducing the small wonders within a given bin: And so, yesterday in the rain, I had sunny squash in a pasta that’s friendly to additions—while farfalle cooked (the shape matches all those bow ties at summer weddings), I sautéed sliced squash (2 baby [...]

My friend Solana swept gracefully into my apartment last night with a bottle of red wine that (almost) bore her name—a very nice Santi Valpolicella Solane—and helped me finish rolling out fettuccine through the pasta machine I plan to use more often in Brooklyn. Catching up on her recent travels (she journeys to places like [...]