I know this is not food related, but I’d like to take a moment to shine a light on a serious topic: human trafficking. A few months back, my friend Jonathan Sipola helped start My Sister, a benefit corporation dedicated to help end human trafficking (Not familiar with benefit corporations? You can read more about B Corps here). Did you know that there is an estimated 27 million…
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it…and then the warmth and…
My dear friends just had the sweetest little – I got to stop by and take some photographs. Some links for your Sunday: Helen Keller visits a dance studio. Beautiful. Julia Child’s kitchen. Murray. He’s still my favorite. I’m still missing Dave. This pie. I have to make it. …
‘The great chefs of France and Italy learn about food at home; what they do later, in the restaurants that make them famous, is use what they have learned. They build on it, they start elaborating. They take home cooking to the restaurant, not the restaurant school of cooking to the home. Inverting the process is like learning a vocabulary without any grammar…We are at risk, here, of…
“I can eat anywhere, standing up if I have to. That said, I have always loved the idea of a kitchen table around which people can gather. Having spent a good year or more scouring the Internet, antique shops, and salvage yards for something that works for me, I finally decided to have one made. The idea had never crossed my mind until I saw, quite by chance,…
‘We live in a world where twists and turns are applauded. I’ve had my share of bacon-, avocado-, and cheese-flavored ice creams – most of which I could do without. And a whole year once passed when I didn’t eat a scoop of vanilla ice cream. When I finally did, my taste buds, wiped clean of their memory of vanilla, experienced something new. I felt like I was…
Last week I spent a few days in Winona, working on a food column I write with Larry and Colleen for Food 52. We spent most our time cooking, baking, and photographing, but did find time to have some meaningful conversation and watch a few episodes of Flight of the Conchords. Just a little green Like the color when the spring is born There’ll be crocuses to bring…
A few things: Super excited about Food 52’s new cookbook. Also their new videos are pretty rad. DAVID BAZAN. Just saw him play a house show and it was beautiful. Check out his Bazan monthly recordings. Complicated coffee. I love this video. One of my New Year’s resolutions is working my way through a Reading Challenge (but a Minnesota book instead of a Montana one). Wind & Willow…
Sorry for the silence over on this end. It’s been a crazy month; we are in the process of selling our house and buying another, and my days have been filled with taping boxes and filling them with everything we own. So instead of a recipe I bring you some photos from a few family sessions I’ve done recently. And: I have Shortcakes with Roasted Fruit and Rosemary…
I’ve been a big fan of Wind and Willow Home for a long time now. Araya’s colorful bowls are popping up everywhere, and rightly so. A few weeks ago I stopped by her home studio to see her space and snap a few photographs. I was happy to find she was kind and funny, exactly how I imagined her. She is an artist worth supporting. Recently Araya started…
