Whet That Appetite

Carpet of Disappointment

Everyone was crazy about the chocolate chip cookies my middle school served for snack hour. I ate everything they served anyway; any type of pastry

Seafood Foraging Part V: Mackerel

The mackerel are not an episode in this story detailing encounters with parts of the sea and the surrounding plat life; the mackerel are here

Hodmedod’s gifts

You can find our conversation with Nick Saltmarsh under Interviews. This is just a little sample of the bounty he sent us after our lovely

Thanksgiving Leftovers Sandwich

A delicious but relatively simple assemblage. The ingredients are most readily at hand the day after Thanksgiving in the conventional American household. Buttery mashed potatoes

Noah’s Pudding

When I was 28 years old, I tried to cook Noah’s pudding for the first time in my life. That is a part of our

The Misgiving Meat Eater

“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small. All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.” After reading the book

The Disgruntled Dishwasher

I started washing dishes as a child in order to have a smoke in the kitchen while my mother was watching telly in the living