Baking

There’s a cookie recipe for everyone, and for every moment. My all-time favorite, though, is a chocolate chunk cookie: there’s something classic and comforting about it. Had a bad…

“You people love — that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey.” Don Cherry, “Hockey Night in Canada”…

I remember how the adults would sit around the kitchen table, after dinner or mid morning most likely, each of them with a cup of coffee. It was about…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when the farmer’s markets are filled with local fruits and vegetables that are bursting with color and flavor! I couldn’t resist…

The ability to cook diverse food, to eat food from different places and cultures, is too often described as an enlightenment project, as a way to ‘becoming’ something else.…

There’s a sort of culinary mysticism that enshrouds grandmothers. They are always master cooks creating unforgettable meals, and also gatekeepers of the mystical techniques used to create these magical…

Over the past two years, I’ve started a new tradition with my kids. Some time during the Christmas break we get together and make our own speculaas cookies. Speculaas…

I’ve been learning a lot about za’atar recently, which is appropriate given the title of this website! I first learned of it through a visit to my local middle…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about comfort food. The term often gets invoked in various, and even competing, contexts – so what, exactly, do we mean by the…

Lahmajoun sometimes gets called ‘Armenian pizza’ or ‘Turkish pizza’ or ‘Lebanese pizza’ or ‘Syrian pizza’ or ‘Arab pizza’, Wikipedia tells me. But, it’s really not pizza. Pizza is a…

There are days that are an absolute grind. Social media doesn’t normally show those; or, I don’t normally show those on my social media. It’s not that I’m trying…

As we sit on the porch in her back yard, we chat about how beautiful the berries are. Each time, she tells me about how delicious the jelly is…