Of bread and family.

I took a road trip this week and drove my mom and grandma from Indianapolis to visit my brother’s new Chicago bakery. Check it out!

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Weekend in Bloomington.

Journalists are supposed to be impartial about their subjects, but in the interest of full disclosure I’ll own up to my love for Bloomington, IN. I spent four glorious years there in the late 1980s, earning …

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Cooking on the road.

Rob and I enjoy having access to a decent kitchen when we travel, so we can take full advantage of local produce and other goodies. Like the Lowcountry shrimp we’ve been eating almost daily here in …

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Moroccan chicken tagine.

Our January trip to Morocco opened my eyes to a world of sights and smells I’d never experienced. And it introduced my palate to a fantastic way of cooking. I’d been passingly familiar with Moroccan cooking, …

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Cooking in Marrakech.

During our four days in Marrakech, I was most excited by the prospect of taking a cooking class. A very international group of 9 of us did a hands-on cooking workshop at La Maison Arabe, a …

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Amazing Marrakech.

Perhaps you have an image of Marrakech in mind: exotic, romantic, aromatic, slightly dangerous. And you wouldn’t be too far off.

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