We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had just set out for a doctor’s appointment in NYC, three hours away. Suzi checked her phone and saw we were to go to the Westside Broadway office, but we had talked about the Eastside office on York. I wanted York because a block away...

  The country has endured a brutally hot summer. Well, actually, just some of the country. Here in the Hudson Valley, we used our air conditioner one night. Just one. The other nights, if we wanted to sit on our porch and listen to the stream, we had to don...

  It's Thursday and time for a Throwback Thursday recipe. Sort of. Ten years ago this month, I drafted this post, a lovely roll from Fine Cooking. I never published the draft. When I looked today for the Fine Cooking website, I discovered that the magazine was...

  Chowder. We are into the first week of autumn and chowder is the word I love now. Tonight, the temperature will dip into the 40’s. And I can’t bear to think what mornings will be like a in a couple of months. The only hope is chowder. But, what is a chowder?...