Ah spring. In DC, that means that overpriced elitist farmers markets are starting up. However, after a long winter, subsisting on root veget...

I couldn't help myself. In addition to the cheese heart, I ordered some rose petal confit and decided to put its first use towards some...

I couldn't resist. Near valentines day, I sent for a Cheese Heart. It was on sale at Murrays Cheese as well as some adorable jars of ros...

Sometimes I procrastinate making the week's food on the weekend and suddenly it's midweek and I'm foraging like a raccoon throug...

I'm sorry Jamie, but all that butter's gone to your gut, and the wild pheasants and truffles hunted and picked in your private count...

Whoa! It's been a while! My CSA season has come and gone! A whole summer's worth of eating undocumented. I have to get busy. So whil...

It took me many winters to adjust and accept the cold. The first 4 years in the North East, coming from the equator, were brutal. At the sli...

Just my luck that my grand welcome is the most brutal summer anyone who has lived here for the past 30 years can remember. And just when tem...

The thing about living in DC is that I've had to accept that apples will cost a zillion dollars a pound and won't be as delicious an...

My frequent trips up to New York always begin with me sliding (not so) gracefully into a booth in Shabu Tatsu , exactly 30 minutes after my...

Cat's tongues are these long, rectangular round thing biscuits which are....generally not very exciting. I was enticed by Laduree's ...

Salut ! I recently returned from P aris with the extra bag bursting at the seams with chocolate, caramels, macaroons, cats tongues, violet...

In order to plant our veggie garden, B and I dug up a plot on our rental property of what we thought were tall obnoxious leafy weeds. Look w...

Look what B left in a fruit bowl one day.

Nope, not little basil peas, just new leaves! I love their adorable puffiness.