The combination of dogs and a walkable neighborhood gives me the perfect excuse to go on reconnaissance missions around my neighborhood, ...

A text message from my friend Ann was all it took: "Need peaches? A friend invited me to come pick peaches from her three overload...

My friend Linda is in Transylvania, revisiting old friends from previous travels and, because she is the kind of warm and compassionate p...

My mother grew up in a tiny ranching town at the foot of the Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon where winters were long and stores were few...

I looked in our freezer yesterday and was astonished to see how much I'd managed to squirrel away over the summer, from berries to rhub...

I've said it before , I'll say it again: I love Mark Bittman's approach to food. It's not fussy, it's not complicated,...

Our friends Monique and Kevin came over for dinner the other night and, while I'm not a big hostess-gift person (a bottle of wine seems ...