Little Pink Boxes: Why Bakery Boxes in SoCal (and in other parts of the West Coast) are Pink, a Post in Honor of Boxing Day

Stephanie Shih, “Brueghel’s Breakfast,” 2020. Today is Boxing Day … so let’s talk about boxes. Actual boxes. But let’s go … More

“To Make Ginger Breade” : Transcribing a 17th-Century Gingerbread recipe

Every year, the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) holds a virtual Transcribathon event. This year, I finally took the … More

The heat came early this spring. By May, it was already hot. I was happy to head north in early … More

When the war began, I realized that I knew almost nothing about Ukraine. I could barely find it on a … More

I keep meaning to write a series of short essays discussing my favorite books of the past year, but I … More

I wrote this back in September, when it was still almost 80 degrees out, and I had no reason to … More

1. At some point in college, I became obsessed with cookbooks. This obsession with cookbooks coincided with two things—first, I … More

I came up with the Cooking By the Book series years ago (really, almost half a lifetime ago), when food … More

At some point in the pandemic year, I decided to transform my interest in wine into an intellectual interest. I … More

Several years ago, on a trip to London, I fell in love with Fortnum and Mason’s Picadilly Stem Ginger biscuits. … More