People often ask me how I got into food. It's a complicated question, but one of the reasons is definitely because of my dad. No, he's not an accomplished home cook or an obsessive food lover. Exactly the opposite, really. The list of foods he doesn't like is crazily long, and includes but is not ...
Raw Cauliflower Couscous Salad with Za’atar
I generally avoid free food samples in Manhattan, because ew. The city is so crowded and dirty. How many hundreds of fingers have grazed that chunk of cookie or cube of cheese before mine? But a few months ago, a new cafe called The Juice Shop opened up right downstairs from my office. Most of the ...
Artichoke and Olive-Stuffed Portobellos
I realized there is a bit of a lack of main course recipes on this blog. I promise it's not because I'm secretly pairing all these vegetable dishes with a cheeseburger! (Only sometimes…) No, really it's because my favorite way to eat is to throw a few different sides together and call it a meal. If ...