Do you ever get an idea in your head and it just sits there, occasionally tweaking your brain with that "now what was that" nig...

When I invited two of my favorite Italian restaurant owners over for dinner, the last thing they were going to hear from me was, "Wa...

My husband makes bacon . So we go through a fair amount of pork belly in year's time, even when we're doing 12 to 14 pounds at a ...

Now, I'm not one to trumpet the end of summer and the beginning of that four-letter word beginning with "f" (and ending wit...

I'd been jonesing for tacos for days, and just hadn't got around to making them. Then, fortuitously, some friends said they were ...

I knew we were in trouble when I mentioned to Ben Meyer that we were planning to smoke a bone-in ham leg for Christmas dinner in a week...

Contributor Jim Dixon of Real Good Food knows his fire, and if he says white barbecue sauce is the real deal, then I'm all in. But ...

There are very few people who love the Cajun food of New Orleans more than contributor Jim Dixon of Real Good Food . Fortunately for thos...

Not many husbands get to say, as mine did recently, that their wives are running "pig errands." In that case, I was heading to ...

It's officially fall. The ash trees surrounding our house are turning golden, coloring the light that spills in the kitchen windows. ...

At $6.99 per pound, it's not a steal, but for some fine eating for a decent price, pork loin is a good place to start, and they'r...

Ever since the first time I met Ben Meyer, I've wanted to write a story about his passion for local food systems. Today you can read...

There are very few things that draw me like a moth to a flame like the smell of smoked meat. I've been known to wander around the nei...

It's no surprise I would find a package of spare ribs in the freezer that'd been packed in there over a year ago, the very last r...

Last night we totally ignored the Oscars. Not intentionally, or in protest over the annual Sturm und Drang that churns up every year, do...

I am lucky to have great friends who are great cooks. When we get together, whether for dog walks, coffee or grabbing a table someplace t...

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