We venture north for this week’s market recap, to the debut of Chicago’s Green City Market in Lincoln Park. Farmers from northern Indiana and Illinois, and from Michigan and Wisconsin brought spring produce, and some surprises. …
In spite of a record-breakingly rainy April, we’re seeing more local produce showing up at the farmers market at Findlay, and also at the Hyde Park Farmers Market, which opened its early season just today under …
It’s a wonder that pizza—a single-crust version without any pepperoni, sausage or Mozzarella cheese, one topped with healthy veggies, no less—could taste so rich. I spotted this recipe for Onion Pizza with Ricotta and Chard in …
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, …
In my library of a decade’s worth of old Bon Appétit magazines, I know exactly which issue to reach for: September 1995, the American Restaurants Issue. Page 93. Page 93 is dog-eared, wrinkled from the steam …
I call it the 10 AM Growlies—that rumble you get in your belly midmorning when breakfast has worn off. The best prevention I’ve found for the 10 AM Growlies is a bowl of oatmeal—it keeps me …
We have a Williams-Sonoma Collection cookbook (you know, one of those slim, almost square volumes they’ve published for years) devoted to risotto. We’ve had this since about 1996, and it is thoroughly abused: spine cracked, pages …
My love of peanut butter runs deep, twined in the double-helixes of my DNA. I know this because my beloved grandfather never turned down a handfulorthree of peanuts. Family lore has it that he favored peanut …
What could be more perfect than sharing the love with your sweetie, your family and your co-workers by way of a batch of heart-shaped cutout cookies? Why, frosting them with buttercream icing, of course! This butter …
