Cooking And Preserving 
Corrupted by coq au vin
There’s no way around the fact that if you eat meat you have blood on your hands. When I worked on a farm, the long afternoons spent slaughtering chickens helped shape m... ...read more
Raiding the Compost Pile
The preparation and consumption of animal offal has become trendy in recent years. From headcheese to braised pig feet, there are many ways of turning animal refuse into deli... ...read more
Buck au Franz
Beneath the broiler, no oil, is the best way to brown meat. It eliminates the splatter of grease and the possibility of fire, and gives you more control over the bro... ...read more
American Sardine
A seafood meal is the one opportunity most Americans will ever have to eat a wild animal. Given the illegality of selling wild game, only hunters and their lucky friends get ... ...read more
Swapping the Love
Early spring means different things in different places. In some regions it’s called mud season. Elsewhere it’s the fifth month of winter grief. In warmer climes,... ...read more
Garlic Patch Friends
Carrots love garlic, and garlic doesn’t mind carrots. Those are some conclusions I reached last year, when I finally got sick of looking at all the blank space between ... ...read more
It’s still pumpkin pie to me
Pumpkin pie is misunderstood in many ways. To name a few: it doesn’t need to be sweet, it isn’t only for the holidays, and as far as I’m concerned, it does... ...read more
Roasted Roots Rock
Roasted roots are to winter what salad is to summer: an edible reflection of the season. It’s a dish that’s about as easy to make as boxed macaroni and cheese, and ... ...read moreHow and Why to Love Frozen, Grass-Fed Beef
July is the best time to kill a grass-fed beef cow, if you ask me. The animal has been fattened on months of neon-green spring forage. Such a cow won’t be as big in July ... ...read more
Cooking Ligurian-Style Fish
It’s funny that Genoa is most famous, gastronomically, for salami—one that bears little resemblance to the lard-speckled salame Genovese di Sant’Olcese that some h... ...read moreFollow Us
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