Green Soup

I’m back! My long haul of work is over for the moment, and I’m now enjoying some breathing space before the next truckload of assignments gets dropped at my kitchen threshold.
Pictured above is a chard-based soup that I cooked today for a friend who is recovering from cancer surgery. Food is an essential part of [...]

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Musings on Michael Pollan’s Latest Book

If you’re looking for an intelligent read about the failures of the Western diet, pick up a copy of Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food.”
I’ve read half the book (it’s a quick, yet informative read) and have underlined some theories that I always believed to be true but didn’t have scientific data to back up. [...]

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Seaweed for Dinner

I’ve cooked enough seaweed this week to line all the beaches in San Francisco. (No, I didn’t eat it all myself; I’m developing recipes for a magazine feature.)
The last time I cooked seaweed was 12 years ago, when I was developing recipes for a health-food cooking school. Hijiki was my ocean plant of choice, for [...]

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Scales Aren’t Just for Bathrooms

The kitchen scale is one of my most prized pieces of equipment. After years of working in pastry stations, where precision is not negotiable, I’ve developed an unwavering fondness for this tool. Not only do I use my scale for recipe development and baking, I also use it for day-to-day meal preparation.
I don’t weigh all [...]

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Foods that Prevent Cancer

I spent Wednesday afternoon in the San Francisco public library researching a magazine feature I’m writing about foods that help prevent cancer. Although I got most of the information I needed in a little over an hour, I spent close to three hours researching the subject because I found it to be so fascinating.
Did [...]

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