Yesterday I eschewed the market and tripped up the steps to the second floor of San Francisco's Ferry Building, where I'd been invit...

Pull back, pack in, hunker down, hide out: in times of economic crises, people reduce expenses, eschew society, fret about scarcity and try ...

In the last few months, I've been buzzing around quite a bit: traveling across the country or ocean four times, working on a couple big ...

Growing up, we celebrated holidays in my grandmother's apartment, which was parked above the red brick grocery store she and my grandfat...

Now a caveat: when I said in that last post that San Francisco pulled into its orbit good cooks and good eaters, and that my friends were bo...

All of my friends eat well, and most cook well. It makes sense: San Francisco is a city that pulls hedonists into its orbit. Last week I li...

I'm from Connecticut. I say that and people think: Admit it. You read "Connecticut" and thought: mansions, autumn, an image of...