
The National Pork Board came to this year’s IACP conference to party. They were celebrating last year’s USDA change in guidelines for pork doneness, and I celebrate with them, as this is embarassingly long overdue. When I wrote about cooking…
The National Pork Board came to this year’s IACP conference to party. They were celebrating last year’s USDA change in guidelines for pork doneness, and I celebrate with them, as this is embarassingly long overdue. When I wrote about cooking…
A Mother’s Day Thank You The forecast for the day is partly laundry, with showers of requests and a chance of thanks. Not all parental repetition is exactly predictable, there’s a little variety to mix things up, like: Is it…
I’m no Rick Bayless. And while I occasionally make the effort to cook authentic Mexican, our typical Mexican Burrito night is all about the kids (isn’t everything?). That is, it’s about letting them choose what goes into their “roll-up.” There…
The Traditional Meatball Food Fight Sometimes conflict forces great new ideas. Here’s one such story in which, while I’ve always known spaghetti and meatballs to be my dad’s signature dish, I only recently learned why. My mom grew up…