I spent the past week with family in North Carolina eating a lot of barbecue and drinking myself silly on sweet tea. I also had access to a real grill, not just the little hubcap-size one that I currently own.... More

The magic of garlic and chili together in a skillet is enough to build a hundred pastas on. In fact, I'm willing to try almost anything that improvises on this marvelous combination, especially when the humble anchovy is added to... More

With a big move happening this weekend, and my kitchen all packed up, I wanted to make sure there was some food that didn't require the use of utensils during the endless hours of packing. Along with some leftover tzatziki,... More

The other day at the fish counter, where I'd gone to buy a fillet of salmon, I found myself confused by my options. The salmon I'd planned to purchase looked a little less than fresh, so I decided to pass.... More

Here's one for the garlic fiends: a soup that uses six whole heads of garlic. Adapted from Nancy Harmon Jenkins' New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Castilian garlic soup is a mellow, saffron-tinted broth with the mingled sweetness of garlic and sherry.... More

This is the first recipe in Molly Stevens's enormous All About Braising book and it's also possibly the simplest and quickest one. Most braised dishes take hours to make tough cuts toothsome, but if you're only messing around with vegetables,... More

Gordon Ramsay’s In the Heat of the Kitchen has been fun to look through, but I haven’t really been able to put it to much use. Most of the recipes seem rather complex for a hectic weekday night. So I... More

While kids all over this fair land were spending their post-Christmas/pre-school days playing with toys, I couldn’t keep my head out of the wonderful cookbooks I received. The first one I dove into was the River Cottage Meat Book by... More