Picture this: a get-away car, a driver, and a passenger with two cookbooks in tow. Is this you headed on a grand summer adventure? Maybe. I hope you will be excited for a spate of book reviews I’ve got coming up. Think of it as a Summer Required Reading List of sorts that will be… Continue reading Earl Grey Lollipops
Matcha Dusted Maple Chocolate Cupcakes
First of all, it feels so good to be back blogging again. For the first time in two months, my kitchen has come out of lockdown. I’m back in Oakland and planning some delicious things for coming weeks. Cookbooks make good traveling companions, don’t you think? With a pencil in hand, hours of entertainment are yours… Continue reading Matcha Dusted Maple Chocolate Cupcakes
So Purple You Might Blink
For a long time, I’ve thought about how a poet can only really get away with using words like jacaranda or halcyon in a poem once in their career. But last month, that all changed. Recently, my rental car has had the occasion to zoom down the 605 and 10 on my way to Long… Continue reading So Purple You Might Blink
Steeped Book: Food Allergy Guide
Today’s Steeped’s one month birthday (I wonder if people celebrate books like babies and count the months after cookery conception?) A friend of mine has been posting photos to show how his baby is growing, juxtaposing her next to a gigantic Hello Kitty! doll. To think, one day she will dwarf that kitty. To think, I… Continue reading Steeped Book: Food Allergy Guide
New York: Steeped in Spring
The park was flush with people. Across the street, a fountain bubbled and gargled water while a throng of men in kilts lolled on the sidewalk outside of a bus burping exhaust. It was a Saturday in New York and the sunshine sparkled as a reminder that spring had arrived. My hand had shot into the… Continue reading New York: Steeped in Spring
Steeped Book is Here!
On the eve before school started, my eyelids would flap open not to be easily closed. Try as I might to shut them, excitement coursed through my body and anticipation kept the thoughts bumping along like trams hooked into an electrical current. Have you ever experienced that kind of sensation before? Steeped: Recipes Infused with… Continue reading Steeped Book is Here!
Wine Poetry: Terroir by Phil Coturri
Terroir is an Expression of Place Terroir an expression of place enhanced by organic practices soil enlivened from extensive cover crops breathe flavor and intensity into fruit. Terroir vineyards surrounded by gardens the complexity of arugula, Padrón peppers, ripening tomatoes, sunchokes to the bane of the farmer, the chicken, lending to exactness of… Continue reading Wine Poetry: Terroir by Phil Coturri
Steeped Book – Cooking with Tea Giveaway
What’s cooking, good looking? If you said tea, you are so right! Namely, a Cooking with Tea kit giveaway valued at $200. Read on below… or click on the orange link above to go directly to the cooking with tea giveaway page and enter for a chance to win. … Continue reading Steeped Book – Cooking with Tea Giveaway
Writing Tips: The One Trait Every Writer Needs to Have
In college, I worked as a residents’ assistant for two years. It proved to be one of the hallmarks during those four years. During the year I manned a freshmen hall, I developed a bit of a… reputation. Whenever I was on duty, my ears would perk up to the sounds of clinking bottles or… Continue reading Writing Tips: The One Trait Every Writer Needs to Have
Food Poetry: “Segments of an Orange” by Jen Karetnick
Segments of an Orange How can I rest? How can I be content when there is still that odor in the world? — Louise Gluck Hours before she died, my grandmother sucked dry three segments of a navel orange and, claiming her appetite had a short range, hooked out the pulp with her finger,… Continue reading Food Poetry: “Segments of an Orange” by Jen Karetnick
Kitchen Diaries: Lessons from a Sourdough Bread Loaf
Early Friday morning is an exquisite pocket of time. Perhaps it’s knowing that the sprint is almost over and only five hours stand in the way of what shapes weekend hours from the weekday ones. The kitchen comes slowly to life on Friday mornings, rising with the sun. Usually I am already bedecked in bits… Continue reading Kitchen Diaries: Lessons from a Sourdough Bread Loaf
Potato Leek Bok Choy Soup
In the cold evenings of deep winter, you can get a bit desperate. Perhaps it’s the shortened days paired with the fact that our kitchen overhead light is on the fritz again, but darkness comes too soon. With it, it brings a chill that penetrates the thin windows enough to make me reach for an… Continue reading Potato Leek Bok Choy Soup