Something new and delicious is blossoming between me and the love of my life, and we’re making it happen in front of a roomful of strangers. We’re cooking together.
Sure, we’ve done it side-by-side before — me grilling steak and Dawna making salad, that kind of thing — but in 13 years, we’ve never really cooked [...]

Feeling blue? Mung beans, lobster, turkey, asparagus, sunflower seeds, cottage cheese, pineapple, tofu, spinach and bananas could lift your spirits.
A diet high in tryptophan - an amino acid converted by the body into the feel-good chemical serotonin - can improve mood and wellbeing, pediatrician and natural health expert Caroline Longmore said.
The body cannot produce tryptophan [...]

Spring is here or so the calendar on my desk top informs me. I will believe it more when the 7 foot snow mountain on my deck melts and I can find my Weber which is buried like a Cracker Jack prize somewhere at the bottom of it all. Earth Day reminds me: I know [...]

Take a quart of fresh cream. Resist the urge to drink it straight from the bottle or to tip it on to chocolate cake to make a sludge of glory. I know thats a lot to ask but today were aiming high.
Shake the cream. Shake it till your arm aches. When the miracle happens, youll [...]

On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]