I've finally decided to get over my fear of fermentation, that nagging worry that I'm going to kill my family with a deadly bacte...

In a recent edition of the New York Times, wine editor Eric Asimov waxes poetic about Oregon wine, saying that "Oregon is right now...

The New York Times panel described below was held on October 5, 2016, a month before the recent election, but brought out some key insigh...

Perdue Farms , the 800-pound gorilla of the poultry business, has bought the Niman Ranch brand in a move that's seen as its "tr...

I share contributor Jim Dixon's recipes here for a couple of reasons, one being he's a really fine writer, but the other is tha...

It was one of those food articles designed to attract attention: a photo of a giant steak sitting on a pile of fiery coals, like someone ...

I don't know if this is true of other cooks, but I can't seem to follow a recipe to save my life. Even though I consider myself ...

Let's face it: Spring is all about sex. Call it reproduction, fertility or, to use Anthony Boutard's favorite word, fecundity, n...

I've always had a certain fear of large hunks of animal flesh. I know, I know…you're thinking, "But Kathleen, weren't ...

When I got to the Home section of today's New York Times, the fellow pictured in the article below the fold rang a vaguely familiar bel...

My pet peeve when it comes to wait staff in restaurants, the thing that makes my skin prickle with irritation? It's when a staff person...

In any long marriage there are ups and downs, times of passion and times when Dave probably thinks, "What the heck am I doing with thi...

Cutting, slicing and slashing are words commonly used to describe decreasing the price of a product. But the beef industry of late has been...

Here at the homestead we are all up ons about Mark Bittman. He's been doing his Minimalist column in the NYT Dining section for several...

A couple of months ago it seemed like the New York Times couldn't get enough of Portland. For awhile you couldn't open the paper wit...

Looks like someone back East has finally heard the news that there's something going on here in Portland. And it's got nothing to do...