Playing with Food

Colors on my morning walk. Every fall as the leaves turn and the landscape is ablaze with orange, red and yellow I bring in my two pot...

Each October my Wayback friends (yes, we go way back) and I get together and volunteer for the grape harvest at Barnett Hill Vineyard in Wa...

The days maybe getting shorter and nights cooler but don't give up on the garden yet... Heirloom Rattlesnake Pole Bean reaches for th...

Puffy clouds, bright blue sky and crisp, clean air means fall is approaching our corner of southwestern New Hampshire.  This is the time of ...

Padek ready for fermentation Padek is a very strong, pungent fermented fish sauce unique to Laos and parts of Thailand.  It is indispens...

Last weekend, at an Asian market, I came across these perfectly ripened "champagne" mangoes, and their fragrance brought back mem...

March is maple time in New England. The rolling hills are still covered in snow but the sun is strong and languishing sugar houses are comi...

My mother and I only get to spend about ten days together each year. She lives in France and we try to make each visit count. My goal eac...

January is long and cold in New Hampshire. Sunshine is in short supply and I find comfort in the kitchen, digging out my collection of reci...

Outside the temperature is a frightful 8 degrees F. and I really don't care to know what the wind chill might be. I'm snug in my ki...