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A Mango Lassi, Please
It’s official. I can no longer see my feet. Oh, they’re down there—sometimes I lean forward to greet my toes and confirm this fact—but without question my view to the floor is looking more rotund...
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Humble Pie
The first time I remember tasting strawberry rhubarb pie was in Aspen, at a backyard party meeting my husband’s family. With its gemlike strawberries and ruby stalks of rhubarb, this pie has marked...
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Cookie Irony
There is a classic Christmas story, The Gift of the Magi, about a young couple that is poorer than poor. The wife, with only a dollar and eighty-seven cents to her name, sells her beautiful hair to...
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Clean Plates
If you subscribe to food or lifestyle magazines, or even if you glance at magazine covers from the grocery store checkout line, you know there is a tried-and-true pattern. January ushers in...
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Prelude to Potatoes
One of the joys of gardening is that it sends you back to childlike thrills: buried treasure, mud pits, Easter Egg hunts. Potato harvesting combines all of these. Our backyard garden is currently...
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A Good Egg
I had hoped to get this recipe to you before Easter Sunday, of course, but life intervened. No matter. Surely you have leftover eggs and asparagus that need a second destiny. If not, allow me to give...
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Paying It Forward
I ran twice this weekend—a rarity these days—and drove home with my heart feeling so full. The sunshine, the post-endorphin buzz, the crunch of my iced coffee all reminded me that I am embarrassingly...
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Fresh Food for All
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Back in 2010, I became a volunteer for cooking classes that taught basic culinary skills and...
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Dinner on Deadline
“Don’t get lost. Don’t be late. It’s good to smile, but easier to get bugs stuck in your teeth.” When I was 16 and an employee at REI, I discovered this message on a handwritten note in my bike bag....
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Seasons
For me the hardest seasons are the ones of stillness, of waiting. The times when you want bullet points and progress and contingency plans, and that quiet voice says again, Wait. It’s that wise...
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