At the moment I’m eating salad every day. This is not an exercise in restriction; it’s a commitment to self-indulgence and celebration of one of my favorite menu items. When asked what my favorite foods are, I have often said, “Salad…and cheese, of course.”
These salads I’ve been making are delicious, usually casual and easy, and they fill [...]
As the food stylist Delores Custer says, “When you like a food photograph, who do you usually give credit to? The photographer.” And where are the credits for the food stylist? “In the gutter.” I thought she was making some kind of bitter joke, but actually, the gutter is the place in the magazine that’s so close to [...]
Last Friday I was excited to teach a cooking class — “Cocina Con Amor” — a Spanish-themed meal for February. Yes, I wanted to take Valentine’s Day into consideration, but really that kind of love was not the sole inspiration for the class.
The central ideas–and a huge driving force in my cooking–had to do with increasing joy in [...]
