BitterSweet

I’m perpetually haunted by the ghost of cranberries Christmas past. One of the rare few fresh ingredients that remains firmly out of season and unavailable most of the year, the impulse to stock up is irresistible. Surely, there will come a time in mid-July when I absolutely NEED whole cranberries, right? It’s only reasonable to toss an extra two or three bags in the freezer ...

Side dishes are the best part of Thanksgiving. This isn’t an issue of turkey vs Tofurky, it’s just a solid fact that the real MVPs are found on the sidelines for this holiday. Give me a plate piled high with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sau...

Whole wheat flour has an image problem. For generations of kids raised on homemade granola and natural food stores, it was the flour of dense sandwich bread, crumbly muffins, and cookies that somehow tasted healthy no matter how much sugar went into them. Going back even further in history, it was the flour of poverty, when “unrefined” stood for lower class a...