Or what I learned when I made my fiance cook with me from ‘A Couple Cooks’. Eater, September 2024
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Before the picklers, before the craft chocolate makers, there was Diane Keaton making applesauce in Vermont. Eater, September 2022
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Along with an infamous salad dressing recipe, Ephron’s thinly veiled novel gave us the blueprint for the modern food memoir. Eater, March 2023
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For many Jews, gefilte fish is the bête noire of the Passover Seder table. It doesn’t have to be that way. Eater, April 2025
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I’d been led to believe that a restaurant date was an inherently romantic construct. Mike — and Kenny Rogers — taught me otherwise. Eater, February 2025
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A needless innovation considering the ease and low cost of making your own overnight oats, these products are mostly just a waste of plastic. Eater, February 2021
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The bulk foods aisle is self-governed and a little feral. Heated, June 2019
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No one could tell me what to do. But if visions of the future could yield answers, then who was I to argue? So I called Frank. The Guardian, April 2019
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Though it's long been considered as hippie as macramé tapestry—and often maligned—there's a growing sense that nutritional yeast is, basically, the best. Taste, March 2018
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The Atomic Age Jewish cookbook Love and Knishes was written in a voice so skeptical, so long-suffering, so unapologetically, unfashionably Ashkenazi Jewish that you could only imagine its author, Sara Kasdan, as an old woman living on the fifth floor of a Lower East Side tenement. But that was far from Sara Kasdan's story. Taste, September 2017 2018 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Nominee
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One woman's love letter to the rejuvenating powers of Big Sur, which has always been a world apart—and now is literally so. San Francisco, June 2017
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Finding connection after a complicated family history. Guernica, October 2016
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I was traumatized by potato pancakes when I was a kid, but making 1,500 of them got me over it. Gilt Taste, December 2011
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He sold me salmon, and became my friend. Medium, October 2013 Finalist for the 2014 IACP Bert Greene Award for Culinary Memoir
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When visiting home becomes a meditation on mortality. Medium, October 2013
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When cleaning out your kitchen gets personal. Medium, September 2013
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When desire and necessity drive you to an unlikely place. Medium, August 2013
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When New York rewards those who don’t flee. Medium, July 2013
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How can such a good cook be such an awful person? Gilt Taste, July 2012
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A romance, told in meals. Gilt Taste, May 2012 Winner of the 2013 IACP Bert Greene Award for Culinary Memoir
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