How virtuous are your eggs?

Organic? Cage-free? Pasture-raised? No matter what the lingo, not all eggs are created equal.

Tyler Florence’s Hot Dog Chili (Or, When Bad Recipes Happen To Good People)

A conundrum endemic to parenting and modern life in general, the home kitchen provides an object lesson: When preparing a recipe for the first time, particularly one from a celebrity chef like Tyler Florence, do I trust my instincts and override the recipe whenever something seems amiss? Or, do I remain humble, follow it to the letter, and hope for the best?

Tov Tofu coming

Korean restaurant to open in Santa Rosa

Cooking For Kids with Just Three Ingredients

About a month ago, lacking my hoped-for, fleeting, and frustratingly oft-absent daily quotient of inspiration and incisiveness, I decided to try something new and, I admit, sort of gimmicky: I decided to find out out how many distinct, complete dishes I could compose using just three ingredients. And, importantly for our household, nowhere does the fewer-ingredients/simpler-technique approach bear sweeter fruit than in response to my frustration of cooking for kids.