Every once in a while, the Finger Lakes get noticed -- well, more and more over the past few decades, in new ways. (Yes, even 50 years ago, they knew about the Finger Lakes. Who knows who "they" were or are. . . but anyway. . . ) The point today: A...

I recently went to a place called the Pizza Grille for lunch with work colleagues. It was a very very nice sunny day -- spring had sprung -- and the idea of going somewhere with huge windows struck one person's fancy so she directed us to the Pizza...

A Review of a Book on Islam and Cooking! Harrisburg Eats -- A Few More Joints The Best Sauerkraut Ever A Poem from Marge Piercy And More But Meanwhile: What Have YOU been Cooking Lately? (and thanks to www.ammaryasir.wordpress.com for the...

International Women's Day is a day to reflect, to think, to wonder. Why, for example, is it 2010 and the first woman director has only now won an Academy Award? Why are more women in poverty? Why do women cook in the domestic sphere but male chefs...

Quite a long time ago, someone recommended I ask Jessica Conant-Park to do an interview for Cooking with Ideas. Slow as I am, I eventually wrote to her and she promptly sent along a few of her books. And I slowly, eventually, months and months later...