Here's an appropriate video for those of you preparing to feast tomorrow; it's a montage of scenes from great food movies ("Big Night," "Like Water For Chocolate," "Goodfellas," etc) created by Matt Zoller Seitz: That Thanksgiving scene from...

“Elberton is a Red. Neck. Town.” These words come from Gina, a red-headed native of Elberton, Georgia and occasional helper to the Jalil family, who is driving me and my friend Shirin from Atlanta to Shirin’s family home—the Jalil family...

In case you haven't noticed, food blogs, food magazines, food networks and the like love Thanksgiving. They love it because, for once, the nation is intent on cooking dinner. For 364 days out of the year, that's mostly not the case--what with fast food...

As a New York based food blogger, I often make an effort to vary my posts so that those of you not in New York--which, I imagine, is actually the large majority of you--can feel like I'm speaking to you too. But this post, despite its New York...

When I think pot roast, I think Americana, I think 50s sitcoms and a beleaguered housewife who intones: "Oh, darn it, I burnt the pot roast!" It's not a dish that I ate much growing up, eating--as we did--most of our meals out. My first real pot...