I think I found heaven last month. It's in a Virginia holler outside of Blacksburg, at the home of Greg and Cindy Galbreath of Buc...

My friend Kate works for DC Safe , a wonderful non-profit organization that provides support for victims of domestic violence in Washin...

It is my little pie baker's secret that I am not that into apple pie. I find it a bit "meh"--somewhat bland, generally ...

A few months ago my housemate Bobbie handed me a copy of Bitch Magazine , open to a cartoon. "Check this out--it's about pies,...

It was a classic case of being nostalgic for something I never really knew, or only partially knew, the rest filled in by imagination....

This Ruth Reichl pear tarte tatin, from the Gourmet cookbook, has become a staple recipe in my kitchen. The first time I made it was ...

One Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I found myself tromping through the woods along the Patuxent River, outside Bowie, Maryland (pronou...

Ah....October at last. In my opinion, it's the best month of the year-- for woods walks in sweaters 'n' boots, Brit folk on t...

For a little over a week now this URL to " Another Kitchen Blog " kept coming up as a referring site in my blog stats. But I could...

The best meals are the communal ones. When friends and family crowd the kitchen, taking turns stirring the pot, sam...

Well, I'll be. In all the busy-ness here at the end of summer, starting Nothing-in-the-House Baking Co. , selling at the DC Meet Mark...

Photo by Stephanie Breijo for BYT As the weather turns to mild and the evening falls a little bit earlier, my mind wanders to the joys...

A retro pie sign in Portland, Oregon, spotted by my friend Angela on her way to work!

Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes, what'd life be without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy--that...

Unusually colored vegetables can be a bit of a disappointment. When I worked on a farm in Vermont , I brought home a bushel full of those...

Nothin' too fancy here, after all it is just pie. jes' pie. chess pie. See what I did there? That little abbreviation and perhaps...

I've made a lot of pies with bourbon before. Banana cream pies with peanut crusts and salty bourbon caramel , drunken pumpkin bour...