Cooking

I remember the Life magazine that came out the week I became a "grown up." That was, of course, when I turned 13, and, therefore, knew more than anyone, was finally old enough not to be treated as a child, and the whole world belonged to my generation.

A "Quartet...

Chew on this: more Americans skip breakfast than skip voting, Christmas, and George Bush's State of the Union address combined. Even my dog, Ham Sandwich, knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Scientific scientists have proven that without breakfast the brain can not function properly. I submit...

Not to sound overly simplistic or anything, but I'm not sure what it is about conflict and personal trial that compels food writers of most stripes to beat a hasty retreat to their home kitchens.

Okay, fine. I lied.

I know what it is, and I'm sure you...

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.''

-- Benjamin Franklin

If any rule of thumb applies to holiday entertaining etiquette, be it Thanksgiving, Hannukah, or Christmas, this would be it: If you're someone else's house guest during the holidays, make yourself scarce after three days for both their...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk to the members of the League of Women Voters about my work on immigration. The demographics of their upper-middle-class northeastern suburb were changing. In the last 10 years, the foreign-born population had grown by nearly 15 percent. Their children now...

Before I left for college, I thought I knew what I would miss most: My parents, my friends, my dog, and my room. I was wrong. Although I do miss all of those parts of my life, in the age of video chats, none of them seem that far away....

As the holidays approach, the usual bombardment of festive advertising is starting to appear on TV screens around the country. One ad in particular has intrigued me.

It shows a woman getting ready to welcome her family over to the house for dinner. In her hand she has a...

My first experience with Alice Waters, the founder of the ground-breaking Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, took place back in 1987; I was the cookbook buyer at the original Dean & Deluca in Manhattan, and one day, the door was flung open wide by a panting, petite...

When I talk about the power of food to help the body cure disease, I often find people are shocked, as if they're hearing this information for the very first time. My response is, why do you eat and drink every day? In fact, the choice of what we eat...