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Weekend Inspiration: In Season

I try to eat food in its season because it always tastes better. Usually the texture's better, too, and the color and so on. And generally it is cheaper than when it's not in season. So for very pr...

Weekend Meditation: A Memorable Day

What's a memorable day for you?...

Weekend Meditation: Curiosity

Would it work to sprinkle a little finely minced rosemary over this lemon tart? Can I cook a pizza in my teeny tiny oven and have it turn out like those wood-fired ones from A16? What does a nopales...

Weekend Meditation: Labor and Love

There are myriad ways to express love and none is better than the other. Much depends on timing and personality and intention. But one of the most common and most powerful ways is though labor--or, ...

Weekend Meditation: Finding Beauty

For a happy life it's important to be able to find beauty in everyday things. This teaches us to appreciate what we already have and to not look outside of ourselves for definition and satisfaction. ...

Weekend Meditation: Sweet Inspiration

What's inspiring your kitchen this week? Maybe you've bought something new you that can't wait to try out or you've noticed it's spring and the asparagus, peas, ramps and morels are calling to you. ...

Weekend Meditation: Some People Grow Things

Confession: I do not have a green thumb. I would like one but the truth is I'm lucky to keep a few house plants (barely) alive. I just don't have the instinct for it like I have the instinct for ho...

Weekend Meditation: Taking Refuge

Sometimes when life gets too full of stress and obligation and disappointments, I lock my door, bury my cell phone under the bed pillows and start chopping carrots. When all the carrots are chopped...

Weekend Meditation: "...and the pursuit of happiness."

Modern psychological research is discovering that happiness is not actually contingent on things or circumstances. One way they've proved this is by following people for a year after they've either wo...

Weekend Meditation: Monk's Food

I'm feeling quiet today, kind of hermit-monkish. As I write this, I realize that this statement implies a sense of withdrawal but that's not quite accurate. Rather, it's more like sinking deeply in...

Weekend Meditation: A New Homemaking

Have you ever clicked on our mission statement over there to the left? Go ahead and do it. I'll wait... So what did it say to you? For me, these statements are a homage to a new kind homemaking, o...

Weekend Meditation and Consciousness Raising: It's Up to You and Me

Fact: In America, what we eat contributes to 1/3 of our carbon footprint. OK. So most of us are starting to get it that our high-carbon diets are a big, big problem. We've learned that because our...

Weekend Meditation: The Guilty Epicurean

The kitchen for me is usually a place of joy and refuge where I can be creative, experimental, expressive and accomplished. Even better, it's also an ordinary place where the most basic of human acti...

Weekend Meditation: The Ambivalent Omnivore

I'll admit it. I like to eat critters but I get a little squeamish when I think about killing, gutting, skinning, hanging and slicing them up. Especially when I think about doing all that myself. S...

Weekend Meditation: Not in the Mood

The thing about eating is that it has to happen, no matter how you're feeling at the moment about cooking. A busy day, a nasty cold or plain old just not being in the mood can all keep us away from t...

Weekend Inspiration: What's Your 'Before I Die' List?
culinarily speaking, of course

A San Francisco magazine has just put out their local version of the '100 things you should do (eat and drink-wise) before you die' list. Sigh. I guess I understand the appeal of these kinds of list...

Weekend Meditation: An Extraordinary Occurrence of Lemons

Things have been rather ordinary in my kitchen these days. What with an extra busy work week, some much needed but persistent rain and an empty wallet, I'm left digging in the back of the cupboard in...

Weekend Meditation: Enough

Enough to eat, enough to give some away, enough to relax a little. Enough to throw some away. Enough to forget about it. Enough to share. Enough to keep it going. Enough to get distracted. Enoug...

Weekend Meditation: On Authenticity and Restraint

Authentic is one of those words that's hard to define and yet we somehow know what it means. The dictionary says it's something that is 'real, genuine, trustworthy' but authenticity is also a value,...

Weekend Meditation: Whoops!In Praise of Making Mistakes

Many people are taking up their New Year's resolutions right now and those of us inclined to cook invariably say we're going to try something new, or something intimidating, or something that we belie...

Weekend Meditation: Resting in the Dark Winter Solstice 2008: December 21, 7:04 AM eastern time

In the Northern Hemisphere, today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, a time of deep rest that is sacred to all living things and necessary to life. As a culture, we push against thi...

Weekend Meditation: A Small and Mighty Miracle

Throughout the world and throughout time, food has been viewed as sacred. It is offered up in ceremonies, placed on altars, given to Gods and Goddesses as a sacrifice. We pray over it and create tem...

Weekend Meditation: In Praise of Giving and Receiving

This holiday season, and for good reason, many people are electing to forgo gift giving, crying ‘too much materialism, too much stuff!!!’ I couldn’t agree more. Buying and giving gifts out of ...

Weekend Meditation: Free-Range Trust

We put our trust in so much when we enter the kitchen and start to cook. We trust in the quality and safety of the raw ingredients we've just purchased, that the recipe we're cooking for the first ti...

Weekend Meditation: A Messy Life

It's damn easy, if not necessary, to make a mess when cooking. Even if you're the clean-up-as-you-go type, messiness still exists in those moments before you start cleaning up. Egg shells, carrot pe...

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