One of the great pleasures of winter weather is comfort food. I’d almost lost track of that need – there being not much call for it in A...

Just a tiny, ahem, personal promotion: the December issue of Ladies' Home Journal carries a reprint of my essay on my obsession with s...

This year, my son and daughter-in-law -to-be are hosting their first Thanksgiving. Her family will be joining them, but we’ll be in ...

My current favorite cranberry sauce recipe calls for two cups of pinot noir. You can get a buzz just from the fumes as it cooks. In ad...

A friend and I drove down to San Antonio this weekend, to the Culinary Institute ’s Texas campus for a one-day seminar on baking desserts...

After Christmas, I believe Halloween must be my favorite holiday. Candles everywhere, the heady, fall smell of slowly charring pumpkin in t...

A fun and interesting article in The New York Times this week cast a spotlight on a website – which turns out to be a blog – called Cake Wr...

It’s been a week of mourning: Gourmet magazine is dead. I’ve spent these days browsing wistfully through my collection of issues, which g...

Summer collided with fall here in Austin yesterday afternoon, in the form of a downpour that has managed, in less than a day, to take the...

Today I spent the morning in my garden, which, as often happens toward the end of the summer, has taken on some rather unruly aspects. Sort...