Popcorn with Sesame-Glazed Pistachios

We gathered around a table decorated by five-year-old Sasha Belle, who made sure we not only knew where we were meant to sit, but also, what she imagines our faces look like. Her proud parents Kim and Steve, her three year old sister Zella, and my fond old biology student David formed this year’s Thanksgiving […]

Semolina Tartine Bread and Sudden Spring

And of a sudden, Spring. We took to the streets, chickens too, eyes squinted to allow more space for smile. I went to procure the nearest ice cream cone with which to celebrate Melting Of All Kinds. We break bread and give thanks. Semolina Tartine Bread Adapted from the Tartine Bread book Sourdough          200 […]

Multi-Grain Bread with Sesame, Flax, and Poppy Seeds

Dear world, thank you for fiber and for recipes that make it palatable. Also, thank you for making my duodenum impassable to long, firm tubes. Long story, but it involves my signing up to be a study patient, suffering the “introduction of a plastic tube past my oropharynx” as the technician neatly summarized a wild […]