Contributor Spotlight: Catherine Newman
Catherine’s voice was always one of my favorites in Brain, Child and the late, lamented Wondertime magazine; her carefully-observed writing steps so lightly, and with such wit, that you don’t realize...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Dani Klein Modisett
It’s one of the most common tropes of childhood eating, the kid who will only eat white food. Lisa’s son did it briefly, and as a child, my brother wouldn’t tolerate soy sauce on his rice, only table...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Elrena Evans
Literary Mama has brought me many great writer friends, and Elrena Evans was one of the first. She submitted an essay to the section I edited, and over the course of our editorial correspondence we...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Gregory Dicum
Gregory Dicum is many things: a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Economist, and elsewhere; the author of 6 books, most recently The Pisco Book; and co-founder and...
View ArticleCooking Demo and Reading at the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market
As she writes in “It Takes A Market,” her essay for Cassoulet, Elizabeth Crane found a community for her young family when she began selling peaches at the Aerie, a farm stand run by a farmer named...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Edward Lewine
Ever interview a Spanish matador? Ever wonder what Christie Brinkley keeps in her nightstand, or how Mad Men‘s Matthew Weiner stocks his liquor cabinet? Edward Lewine has, and we are all luckier for...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Jeff Gordinier
Jeff Gordinier writes for the NY Times Dining and Wine section. Since joining the staff in 2010, he has written too many articles to count, on subjects ranging from the poetry of cheese mongers, to...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Libby Gruner
Editing an anthology is a very chicken-and-egg process. You need essays in order to get a publishing contract, but you need a publishing contract in order to get essays. So, basically, you need good...
View ArticleContributor Spotlight: Thomas Peele
Food reporting is not Thomas Peele’s usual beat. Peele is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Bay Area News Group and author of Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism’s...
View ArticleChocolate Cream Eggs for (the day after) Easter
Perhaps if I were a more professional food blogger, I would have tried this recipe a couple weeks ago, and then posted it last week in time for you all to decide to make it, too. But I am not at all a...
View ArticleFood Bloggers Against Hunger
My kids are always hungry. Eleven-year-old Ben is going through a growth spurt that has him going back for thirds and fourths of dinner; 7-year-old Eli lies in bed moaning, “I am too-too hungry to...
View ArticleFood Bloggers against Hunger, II
A couple of months ago, New York Times dining writer and Cassoulet contributor Jeff Gordinier, hosted a screening and Times Talk about the new documentary, A Place at the Table. You can get a first...
View ArticleOne More Kale Salad
The farmer’s market is full of spring vegetables these days — asparagus and peas, artichokes and strawberries — but we’re still having cool days that make me crave wintery ingredients. So I was happy...
View ArticleIndependence Day
About 3 weeks ago, we had the good fortune to present Cassoulet to the SF Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market where contributors Phyllis Grant and Liz Crane, expertly talked about their stories and demo-ed a...
View ArticleWelcome Home Scones
There was a time when flying home to San Francisco after a visit to my east coast family would leave my kids so crazed with jet lagged — and me so exhausted from their 3 AM wake ups — that I could fall...
View ArticleHotter than Hot
From now on, I’m only eating food that has music videos. Just kidding. I love any kind of pickle: dill, sweet, cornichons, all kinds of kimchee, krauts, pepperocini. You name it, if it’s pickled, I’ll...
View ArticleCollectible Cookbooks
I don’t know when I first came across Project Guttenberg’s collection of old cookbooks, but for a cookbook hound like me, it is a total treasure. I give plenty of shelf room to the cookbooks I...
View ArticleAlone in the Kitchen
The cool, layered tank top. The tough wrist wraps. The blond pony tail. The endless, obsessive, focused, recipe testing. I saw this photo and I though: OMG, she’s channeling dash and bella. Ella has...
View ArticleEasy as . . . Jam
There are certain homemade foods that seem to bring out the proselytizers, those who insist “It’s so easy!” and the others who view that same food with wonder and awe. Yeast bread is one of those; pie...
View ArticlePie Ranch!
Years ago, our contributor Elizabeth Crane wrote an article for Edutopia about Pie Ranch, a farm which hosts young people from regional high schools to learn about farming and food production. Through...
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