by paige on September 28, 2010
Shauna, Danny and Lu, photographed by Todd Porter and Diane Cu of White on Rice Couple
WE ALL SAY it so often it’s become a cliché: this online world of ours, it really is its own community, maybe even a family, a sisterhood. We admired the Gluten Free Girl from afar; then we profiled her here; and now, we are thrilled to say, we have become IRL (that’s “in real life”) friends, too. Read on for all the delicious details of our very own dinner with Shauna (and Dan and Lu, too.) [click to continue…]
by paige on September 15, 2010
IT’S HAPPENED TO us all, we cooks: a great recipe book somehow goes sadly, horribly wrong. I was thrilled a couple of weeks ago when I opened a package to find a cookbook I’d finally ordered for myself, one I’d seen gourmands praising for years as a superior resource for a particular regional cuisine. “Perfect!” thought I. “This will let me do something really unexpected for Summer-isn’t it fall-yet?? Fest” [click to continue…]
by paige on September 8, 2010
ONLY WHEN I sat down to contemplate this week’s Summer Fest assignment did I face up to this paradoxical truth: I put garlic in just about everything I make, and I am also a garlic avoider. [click to continue…]
by paige on August 25, 2010
I RETURNED FROM my summer travels with just a bit of dread. Not of unopened mail or calls to be returned: I feared my garden, and rightly. [click to continue…]
by paige on August 18, 2010
RETURNING READERS MAY remember last summer as the time of pie anxiety. After a cataclysmic conflict over crust, my mother and I foolishly faced off in a local pie contest and, well, let’s just say that neither of us felt like much of a winner by the end. Ever since, I seem to have been avoiding pie entirely, at least in my own kitchen. [click to continue…]
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