You can find my writing each week via my Substack, French Fries and Martinis.

SELECTIONS FROM THE SUBSTACK include:

• The November Issue (Nov 2023)

• A Pumpkin-Spiced Problem (Nov 2023)

• I’ve Got Home Cooks in Dining Spaces (Oct 2023)

• Telling a New Story of Boston’s Culinary Culture (Sept 2023)

• The Way of the Future (Sept 2023)

• The Anhedonia of Lessons in Chemistry (August 2023)

• Cook Like You Vacation Here (August 2023)

• Does Science Make it Good? (August 2023)

• Bowlful of Mush (July 2023)

• The Dayenu of Diasporic Cooking (April 2023)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• On its 20th anniversary, the film ‘Sideways’ is still teaching us how to drink and think about wine (The Boston Globe, September 2024)

• 19 Indie Food and Drink Mags that CAn Take All Our Money (SAVEUR, September 2024)

• Southern Hospitality? The Abstracted Labor of the Whole Pig Roast (Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, January 2024)

• Nancy Silverton Won’t Rest until She’s Perfected the Classics: An Interview with Nancy Silverton, author of The Cookie that Changed My Life (SAVEUR, December 2023)

• The Best Cookbooks to Gift This Holiday Season (Cookbook Roundup 2023, SAVEUR, November 2023)

• How a Cookbook Captured the Heart and Soul of Taiwanese Cuisine: a Conversation with Clarissa Wei, author of Made in Taiwan (Saveur, November 2023)

• This New Latin American Cooking Bible Has it All: A Conversation with Sandra A. Gutierrez, author of Latinisimo (SAVEUR, October 2023)

• This Cookbook is a Must-Read Love Letter to Roman Jewish Cuisine: A Q&A with Leah Koenig, author of Portico (SAVEUR, September 2023)

• The North African Cookbook Everyone’s Talking About: An Interview with Jeff Koehler, author of The North African Cookbook (SAVEUR, August 2023)
  
  OLDER:

• 10/27/2016: Capturing the 1970s food movement in design: David Lance Goines and Alice Waters's "30 Recipes Suitable for Framing" (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 5/23/2016: Potable quotables on the 40th anniversary of the Paris Tasting (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 11/23/2015: The Story of 4 Thanksgiving Ingredients (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 7/23/2015: Inside the Demonstration Kitchen (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 5/1/2015: 5 big questions behind American sushi (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 4/7/2015: Chicken, Eggs, and the Changing American Diet (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 4/8/2013: Some New York Bars (from Full Stop)

• 4/22/2010: Meet me! (and some of the other Borzoi Cooks)

•  4/2/2010: Brisket for Passover (from Joan Nathan)

• 3/2/2010: Maryetta's Oatmeal Bread (from James Beard)

• 11/12/2009: Chicken Pot Pie (from Jason Epstein)

• 10/22/2009: Mastering the Art of French Coping (French food in the footsteps of Julia Child and Judith Jones) 

• 9/15/2009:Fillet of Fish in Parchment, and Summer Berry Pudding (from Judith Jones)

• 7/8/2009: Attempting Boeuf Bourguignon (from Julia Child)

• 6/10/2008: Plating Well in a Small Kitchen (from Not Eating out in New York)