Cooking is a protest against specialization. At least that’s the argument that writer Michael Pollan puts forward in his Netflix show Cooked (and, I imagine, in the book of…
Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those…
Traditional ‘family recipes’ don’t always lead you somewhere beautiful. When family recipes are invoked they often have a particular aura, one of ancient culinary arts buried in processes that…
Potato salad is not something to be trifled with for some folks. It’s a classic dish. A cookout standard. Across Canada and the United States, potlucks and picnics are…