The Runaway Spoon

Fall always makes me want to have people over for dinner. The days get shorter, the evenings get cooler and suddenly gathering around a table for a proper meal seems like exactly the right thing to do. And if you are going to have a dinner party,...

Nothing says fall quite like pumpkin—but I’m not talking about pumpkin-flavored everything from the grocery store. Pumpkin is a wonderfully versatile ingredient in the kitchen, and it deserves better than being relegated to coffee and packaged sn...

I haven’t always been a joiner. No jumping on a bandwagon. But I have definitely caught on to the mahjong hype. I was late to the party, largely because the first friends I knew who started playing did so years before it became a natio...

I have said before that I am a banana bread purist (see Buttermilk Banana Bread and