Novel Eats

Summer conjures up a lot of culinary tastes and images for me, from corn on the cob to peach cobbler to strawberry lemonade. It’s a season of indulgence and surprise as I rediscover loved fruits and vegetables from my childhood, especially since everything is dripping with freshness and none of it is vacuum-packed in plastic. [...]

I’m still getting used to the weather in Washington. I have spent virtually every summer of my life in locations where the summers are hot and often humid, and where the springs usually get a jump start on the hot weather and say “first!” But yesterday, I was quite surprised when I looked at the [...]

Learn how easy it is to grow plants – yes, even food – in containers in this fourth post in the Kitchen Garden series. When we first got into container gardening it was after we had already lived in New York City for a few years. As with many urban environments, there are opportunities to [...]

Learn how to start seeds in this third post of the Kitchen Garden series. When I first started getting into gardening, it was as though I was experiencing my inner child again. The wonder of seeing little tiny seedlings pop out of the soil is a feeling like no other when you’re working on building [...]

This is the second post in the Kitchen Garden series. One of my absolute favorite things to do when it comes to gardening is deciding what to plant. Even though we have only had small garden spaces over the last few years, we already have thousands and thousands of seeds because of our love of [...]