BitterSweet

Lasagna is an act of love. Make no mistake, when you sit down to a glorious stack of noodles, red sauce, and cheese, someone is making a statement about their feelings. They’ve chosen to spend a solid chunk of their day planning, prepping, simmering, layering, and baking, all to share something that will disappear in minutes. Even quick fixes or

Despite never in my life having dabbled in the world of psychedelics, I swore I was hallucinating the first time I saw beautyberries. How else could you explain such lurid, luminous purple berries, clustered like overstuffed pincushions on branches? Growing right in my backyard, seeming to spring up out of nothing, they were unlike anything I’d ever seen in n...

Anything, be it a restaurant, dish, or book, labeled as “Asian” gives me pause. It feels like a reductive, overly simplistic term to encompass a staggering number of cultures. Even with a fair amount of overlap with shared ingredients and techniques, it’s less descriptive than the term “European,” which I daresay no food writer would attempt today.

For all my misgiving...