Two NPR segments about feeding kids. On The Splendid Table this week, John Moe (whom I knew back when he used to dress up in a chicken suit and sing comic songs) talks about trying to come up with a dinner that his whole family, including two kids, will eat. Comedy ensues: link (the segment […]
Here’s me and Iris on the CBS Early Show, May 19, 2009.
The Hungry Monkey virtual book tour is underway. Here’s what’s happened so far: May 8: Lara Ferroni at Cook and Eat May 9: Rebekah Denn at Eat All About It The main idea of the VBT is for me to goad these popular and award-winning writers into telling their readerships about the book. Since anyone […]
Currently on Gourmet.com, the most profanity-laced thing I’ve ever written: Chris Bianco’s Pizza Philosophy Like a martial arts student visiting the Shaolin Temple, my friend Brandon Pettit went to the mountaintop to gain wisdom from an acknowledged master of his discipline. The discipline is pizza, the mountaintop is Phoenix, Arizona, and the master is Chris […]
(Iris has said my next book should have that title. I demurred but said it would work for a blog post. Here it is.) I go through rice phases. For a while, nothing would do but Thai jasmine. Lately it’s been medium-grain japonica rice from California. Sometimes I get a hankering for basmati. Thailand and […]
