Fig Travels: Nashville and Fried Chicken
You haven’t been to Nashville if you can’t come home raving about your favorite “meat ‘n’ three” spot. The hometown of Country Music is also the birthplace and epicenter of this heavenly rich comfort...
View ArticleThis Week In Pictures
I had such good intentions of doing a Wordless Wednesday post, but I realized too late that I’m incapable of doing anything wordlessly and on top of that, without my noticing, Wednesday turned into...
View ArticleLazy Days in Chestertown
We are still in the middle of cornfields, which, oddly, I love. My husband, Mark, and I always describe ourselves as the Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert pair from the 1960s oldie-but-goodie television show,...
View ArticleSugar High: A Mini Anecdote
I love my family for only taking foodie vacations, but after a while the calories will catch up to you. So I was actually a little relieved when my high school friends and I settled on New Hampshire...
View ArticleCheck In
I did it! I finally arrived at college last Monday, I managed to set up my bedding on the top bunk, I connected to campus WiFi and, most importantly, I found a group of friends who are willing to make...
View ArticleBeyond Brown Bread
Before we left for Ireland a few weeks ago, a foodie friend told me about Ballymaloe Cookery School in the tiny town of Shanagarry a short distance from the coast in County Cork. I thought it would be...
View ArticleEverybody’s Irish
As a cooking instructor, I love Ballymaloe for their genius educational philosophy, for their respect for the environment, and for the care they put into each aspect of a meal. But, as we all know,...
View ArticleA Better Beignet
It doesn’t take more than a trip to a carnival (or really an imagination) to know how great fried dough is, but a really great beignet can take one of the world’s best street foods to a whole new...
View ArticlePersian Heaven in a Stew
Francesca is a very picky eater. She’d be happy to eat “yellow pasta,” penne with a little bit of kosher salt and olive oil, practically everyday. But like every kid, she can be unpredictable. Her eyes...
View ArticleIn The Fridge: Cooking Corn at Midnight
If ever there was a day to write an “in the fridge” post, it was last week. We came home a day early from New Orleans in the wake of “Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Turned-out-to be-Barely-Cloudy-in-New...
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