In honor of Julia, and for the PBS Tell Us Your Julia Story event (you can add your Julia story here) we are making eggs with cream. And I am happy to introduce you to my Brooklyn kitchen, the setting for future kthread cooks episodes. Though I cannot warble, these eggs sing the praises of [...]

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 [...]

Walking the greenmarket on Wednesday, I was surprised to see nettles still in season. Usually appearing in March, at the beginning of spring markets that close in the winter, nettles are an incredible source of protein as well as being a folk remedy for all sorts of things. If you should find nettles, I like [...]

Perhaps because I’m spending time on trains and in tunnels lately, perciatelli was the pasta I reached for today when I realized I had beautiful guanciale from Formaggio Kitchen and fresh eggs from this morning’s Union Square Greenmarket—a carbonara waiting to be made. For a simple lunch for one, start by cooking a third of [...]

This morning my spoon sails in and out of chocolate bread pudding from Formaggio Kitchen, the gourmet shop in Cambridge where Charcutier (what a beautiful title) Leah Mojer crafts housemade rillettes, pâté, and a guanciale I could not resist when I visited on Friday. I was in town for my last event with Knight Foundation, [...]