Five Giant Miso-Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Look out, Levain Bakery.
Amateur Gourmet
Funny writing about food since 2004.
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Baking Through the Pantry, Hashing Out the Fridge
Clean-Out-the-Cupboard Banana Bread, Anything Goes Vegetable Hash, and Other Moving Stories.
The Pots and Pans Worth Keeping
And the ones worth giving away
How to Cook without a Recipe
If you don't know what you're doing, act like you do.
Beets and Plums and Barley... Oh My!
Plus: Great August Recipes, Miso Corn, and a Spontaneous Lemon Loaf Cake.
I Know What I Ate This Summer
Tomato salads, lots of ice cream, and not a single lobster roll.
We're Moving to Cobble Hill
Bopping over to one of Brooklyn's most charming neighborhoods.
Summer Eating
It's giving peaches, it's giving tomatoes, it's giving swordfish.
The Leftover Dressing That Glazed My Salmon
In which a tomato-peach salad does double duty
A Summer Minestrone That Isn't Mushy
The secret's in the timing — and the corn cobs
A Weekend in Philadelphia 🔔
With stops at Suraya, ReAnimator, Pitruco Pizza, The Barnes Museum, Superette, Palizzi Social Club, Le Virtù, and Cleo Bagels
Sweetgreen Isn't Good. That Doesn't Mean It's Bad.
The salads taste like they were made by robots and in some places they actually are.
What I Got Wrong About Food
I spent twenty years cooking like every meal was a celebration. My body has notes.
The Five Best Things That I Cooked and Ate in June
From Ottolenghi's Chickpea Confit to Dinner at Eyval
Control Your Tempeh
My first time cooking with fermented soybean cake
The Books That Got Me Through the First Half of 2026
Including the best book I've read in years and one I absolutely hated (but also loved).
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Cooking
Lessons in salt, parchment slings, and busting your husband's dish-soaking scheme.
Go Ahead, Ask Me Anything
Instead of writing about dry turkey meatballs (trust me) I'm here to answer all of your questions about cooking, restaurants, novel-writing, Winston, Parkinson's, you name it.
Drop Me Into Your Book Club
Pick Food Person for your next read, and I'll Zoom in to dish
Eating Healthy Feels Like a Betrayal
But even food writers have to eat to live
A Mostly Make-Ahead Dinner Party for Five
White Bean Dip, Eggplant Caponata, Slow-Roasted Salmon, and the Fresh Mint Chip Ice Cream That Stole the Show
Havreflarn Hobnobs (Or: 3 PM Oat Cookies)
A winning recipe from Nicola Lamb's Sift for those craving a quick afternoon baking project.
Fruit Sludge
My revolutionary new way of suspending fresh fruit in cooked rhubarb.