The holiday rush isn’t the only thing that has kept me from posting my New York column for the past two weeks! Before jumping on a plane to Los Angeles for winter holiday, I completed my entry to the Pei Wei Blog Asia Challenge. One winner will be chosen in January to accompany the Pei [...]

Picture a classic Thanksgiving dinner, when an extended family gathers around a mythically long table. Each seat is filled, and each person can look ahead to see a feast atop tablecloth and a close relative or friend. It’s a scene of domesticity and community, something reserved for sit-coms and too-perfect households, rife with interpersonal drama, [...]

It was only a short while ago that I found myself looking up the word locavore. Thinking it was some obscure Italian opera term, I couldn’t figure out why in the world I saw it in an article discussing food. Upon further investigation, I discovered that locavore was the Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the [...]