I wasn’t going to do this but now I am.  Dear Top Chef: In your first episode of the season, you successfully jumped the shark.  Well done.  Jerks. In case you missed it, Top Chef decided to make us watch the final portion of their casting process.  In the first episode we watched them cast [...]

For years I’ve been a one squash woman.  Sure, I’ve looked at other squashes… I’ve even tried a few here and there.  Yeah, I felt guilty for straying but my squash seemed to understand.  Heck, I’m only human! A woman has needs!  I need to know what else is out there, right?  And even though [...]

Guest Post: Nancy Brenowitz Katz, MS, RD, LD, State Media Representative, District of Columbia Metro Area Dietetic Association Do you ever wonder where your food comes from? Much of the food we eat is shipped from all around the world. As our schedules have gotten busier we tend to eat convenience foods and many people [...]

Guest post by Ben Wenk, Three Springs Fruit Farm So I’m mixing my Alton Brown references with “The Tick”, and no, I don’t expect anyone to keep up with this nonsense. I’m just be preparing you the reader for my own level of acute, scientific detail I’ve come to love from Alton Brown as the blog [...]

When I was a kid I had no interest in learning to cook.  My mom would try to teach me but I just couldn’t summon the desire to pay attention.  That is, with three exceptions.  My mom successfully taught me how to make scrambled eggs, a cheese omelet, and pancakes.  Who knows why I paid [...]

I am not a morning person.  Never have been.  Growing up my mom actually had to resort to pouring cold water on me a couple times to get me out of bed.  I was warned and didn’t budge.  In college I would set my alarm two-hours before I needed to be up and would sleep [...]

Tomatoes probably present the most obvious reason to eat produce while it is in season.  Out of season, tomatoes are mealy and flavorless. Unappealing.  Unexciting.  Just… icky.  In season, they are juicy and sweet and yummy.  The taste of summer.  Seasonal tomatoes from my CSA box are what turned me into a tomato lover, actually [...]

Summer may not be over quite yet but it is definitely winding down.  My CSA boxes are still full of delicious produce so as far as I’m concerned it is still summer!  Got that, Mother Nature? When I get my boxes overflowing with all that yumminess I just hate to cook it too much.  It [...]

You know that wonderful Neapolitan pizza restaurant in Downtown Silver Spring, Pacci’s?  They have opened a new restaurant, Pacci’s Trattoria, off of Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring.  In preparation for its opening, I was invited to preview the restaurant and taste a few of their dishes.  (Disclaimer: It was complimentary, but I plan to [...]

I don’t know about you, but my CSA boxes this summer (every summer, really) have been loaded with yellow squash and zucchini.  LOADED.  My husband doesn’t like it so it is up to me to eat all of the squash.  Frankly, after one box I’m sick of it.  So what do we do with all [...]