Eat Your Lawn

A new wave of gardeners replants front yards with food.

Make Your Own Candy Bars

Corner-store sweets go high-end.

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

Mole in the Mountains

A gastronomic adventure in Xalapa, Mexico.

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We are having record rainfall in Maine and slugs are decimating our garden. We hand pick hundreds every day. I’ve thought of cooking them battered deep fried, but don’t know if they are edible. If the birds...

A recent visit to Skylight Books on Vermont yielded a new treasure: the premier copy of Edible Los Angeles, a full-color, quarterly journal celebrating the joys of local food culture. It is the latest addition to a larger web of...

of rock salt and was considering that, but then it occurred to me that I don’t know if rock salt is edible! I mean, it’s used to freeze ice cream (ice/salt mixture) but that’s the only use I’ve ever heard...

If you are not already familiar with the book “On Food and Cooking”, you should check it out. The section on meat is excellent. Harold McGee, the author, explains the science, history and gastronomy of meat (and every...

I agree on starting with the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. I had to start baking all of our bread a year ago due to my daughter’s food allergies. I was in a complete panic about being able to provide bread for my family...

Thanks for reminding me of Capella’s book, Zerlina. A fun read that had me salivating for the foods of the various parts of Italy “Cyrano” traveled to.

mume Apricot Plum-Pickled Ornamental Edible Popular landscape plant in the south and western US known for its fragrant white, pink or red flowers. Our seedling trees have done well here in Michigan growing 2-3 ft. per year and are...

I know EC had said that he knew someone who will be working at the Roosevelet when they reopen in July. My question is this-we have booked a suite there from July 12-15th. Originally they were slated to be complete early June,...

no thanks and moved on... but it was literally the best breakfast either of us have EVER had! The cover does not make the book. (but sometimes a hole in the wall is just a hole... I got Chinese from a takeout across from our...

up with to more interesting/sexy dishes. Lots of info on technique and such, too. Another great book is Jacques Pepin’s Complete Techniques. Have fun!! That’s really exciting to just be starting out! The sky is the...