My friend tells me that every hipster in Carrboro, North Carolina has a pentagram tattoo these days, so maybe it sounds trite when I sa...

I grew up with corn all around me, but I was allergic. To corn and milk and grass and dust--a tough diagnosis for a Midwestern girl. At...

This past Spring I wrote a blog series for the Southern Foodways Alliance called "Give Me Some Sugar" on Southern women pastry...

Portions of this upcoming post originally appeared in the piece "Cobbled Together: American Fruit Desserts" on NPR's Kitc...

1st slice. I spent the past few days baking, talking shop, and running about town with the lovely and inspiring Kate Lebo (pictured a...

Portions of this upcoming post originally appeared in the piece "Cobbled Together: American Fruit Desserts" on NPR's Kitc...

This evening Seattle poet, pie baker, and  Pie School founder Kate Lebo and I will be hosting a reading & pie tasting at Trohv DC . ...

My most favorite time of year is almost here. I know that spring is traditionally the season of reawakening, but I tend to feel most in...

Portions of this upcoming post originally appeared in the piece "Cobbled Together: American Fruit Desserts" on NPR's Ki...

Inspired by Morgan, the genius at PandaHead , I'm serving up a new weekly series here on Nothing-in-the-House--The Friday Pie Slice! E...

In this next set of posts, I'll be introducing you (though you've likely already met) to some castoff members of the pie family. ...

This morning, I went to church. It's something I rarely do, but today, Donna Schaper was up from the city and speaking at the one-...

For the past month, I've been working as the Director of the LongHouse Scholars Program , a food media internship in Rensselaerville, ...

This piece originally appears in the The Runcible Spoon's SALT issue (vol. 3, issue 11). Pick up a copy of the saline DC food zin...

As I previously mentioned , this spring at NELP I taught a Food Writing Society to a wonderful group of five talented women. The final...