Eating From the Ground Up

lemon curd

alana — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:53:14 +0000

Joey gave me a lemon tree for my last birthday. It went right into the kitchen next to the sunniest window, and ever since then I’ve been feeding it, singing to it, and showing it off to guests like a …

win win

alana — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000

I’m a few days away from a proper post, but I couldn’t keep you in suspense any longer on the whole cast iron dutch oven

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situation, especially when you were so generous with your roast chicken recipes.

The winner of …

first of the month: our very own democracy

alana — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:47:07 +0000

Before we get to the first of the month topic, I have to say–holey chicken! What an amazing collection of recipes, stories, tragedies and triumphs. Whether or not you’re searching for the perfect roast chicken recipe, give the …

another recipe for roast chicken (and a giveaway)

alana — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:05:28 +0000

Just what the world needs. One more recipe for roast chicken. Only I do. I really do.

Perfect Roast Chicken

1. Find a chicken. It should be local, unless it’s not. It should be organic, unless it’s local, unless you …

kumquat ricotta tartine

alana — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:38:57 +0000

Again.

I start writing on an ordinary day. I put it down with the hope of finishing later, and then in that time in between, the New York Times starts yelling at me from my phone. I check the news, …

not for now but for later

alana — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:03:47 +0000

Because it’s now that I’m here and I write, this list will live in this place, not for now but for later. Not for today, when just tonight at 8:08, we cheered and said hooray! It’s been a decade, 10 …

in which our hero makes 8 mangos taste like bad and salty fish

alana — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:54:15 +0000

Yesterday, Joey told me I was the “Don Quixote of food writers.”

I demanded an explanation, but once he saw the challenge/panic in my eyes, he shut up and changed the subject. But what he meant was that I bumble …

first of the month: money panic

alana — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:12:46 +0000

I’d like to try something new today.

Every time I ask a question here on the site, all your answers blow me away. Inevitably, one or two of you even send me emails with full essays answering the question, confessing …

a torte for passover

alana — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:32:48 +0000

Someday, I hope I can pull off Passover. Right now, I don’t have the grounding, the table, the plate, the haggadah, or the Yiddish. I always imagine my grandmother with her blue embroidered placemats and the crumpled tissue she would …

problems with easy solutions: cloth napkins

alana — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:54:51 +0000

When I was growing up, napkins were made of paper. Sometimes they were just paper towels folded in half, or even a tissue box in the middle of the table. In my mind, cloth napkins were for beautiful French countryside …