Food

The Fluff Stuff: Homemade Marshmallows

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo Marshmallows and the great outdoors go hand in hand. Sadly, though, a fireside-charred marshmallow oozing delightfully between chocolaty graham ...

Herbal Wines

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo Wine is associated with festivity, bacchanalian excess and verdant bounty in art and literature. The earliest recorded winemaking activities ...

Eating Her Curds and Whey

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo Ricotta cheese is a classic, yet often under-appreciated, staple in Italian cuisine. My education on the subject began when I married an ...

A Wall-Flower No More

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo If you pay close attention to the world of food and those blogging about it, you’ve probably noticed how dramatically cauliflower has ...

Gumbo

by Terry Thompson-Anderson Just say the city’s name—New Orleans—and most likely your mind will conjure up visions of food and drink. And somewhere in the sensuous mélange of ...

Flour Tortillas

by Iliana de la Vega and Isabel Torrealba Tortillas are the unrivaled accompaniment to any meal in Mexico. And as such, they perform the same role as bread in European cultures and rice in Asian ...

Ragù alla Bolognese

by Will Packwood • Photography by Jenna Northcutt Ragù alla Bolognese is a rich yet delicate meat sauce originating in Bologna, the capital of Emilia-Romagna. Ragù is a ...

Food Storage 101 — Stash It or Trash It

by Anne Marie Hampshire • Illustration by Bambi Edlund It’s easy to dream big at the market—envisioning a week filled with home-cooked, healthy meals using fresh, and in some cases, ...

Nutritional Yeast

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo My relationship with nutritional yeast goes all the way back to the four years I spent meat-free in high school and college. Also peppered ...

by Eugenia Bone One summer day I helped my friend Marilee Gilman slaughter and process about 24 fat ducks. Marilee and her husband Charlie have a beautiful farm in Hotchkiss, Colorado, and they have ...