Appetizers

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me scrape the stringy innards out of my first carving pumpkin of the season. … Read more

My husband claimed to hate buffalo sauce for seventeen years. Seventeen years of me ordering wings with ranch on the side, seventeen years of him … Read more

The plumber was fixing the garbage disposal—the third time that month, honestly—when he started talking about deviled eggs. Not just any deviled eggs, but Halloween … Read more

I’m not supposed to play favorites with recipes, but let’s be honest—we all have that one dish that makes us feel like a kitchen rockstar … Read more

I wasn’t expecting culinary advice from a stranger, but there I was, wedged between two sweaty commuters in a stalled elevator, listening to him describe … Read more

The oven timer beeped, and I pulled out a tray of what was supposed to be elegant little tartlets for a holiday party. The puff … Read more

There used to be a tiny French bistro tucked behind a bookshop in my neighborhood, L’Atelier du Potager, that made a butternut squash soup so … Read more

My coworker Sarah watched me struggling with a paper plate of dry, flavorless chicken salad and didn’t say anything at first. Then she slid a … Read more

The neighborhood harvest festival was in forty-five minutes and I had absolutely nothing prepared. I stood in my kitchen, staring at a half-empty fridge and … Read more

There used to be a little dive bar on the corner of Main and 3rd in my hometown called The Rusty Tap. It was the … Read more