It's time once again for my annual reverse migration to the woods of New Hampshire, where I teach at the University of Michigan...

 I'm literally about to run out the door, jump in the car, and head north for two months (more on that soon), so I'm going to ke...

Elizabeth , Morgan , and I had so much fun with last month's collaboration/excuse to hang out (which is really the best kind of col...

I've been thinking lately about the function of a recipe-- how it is inherently a teaching text. That seems obvious, but I think it...

I first made this Pimento Cheese and Tomato Pie when I was in grad school at the University of North Carolina. My friend Emily Wallace (...

In the field of folklore, one way in which we define the traditional arts is as a community-based expression. We're interested in...

I had the luck of meeting Johnisha Levi at the LongHouse Scholars Program last summer. Johnisha is a lawyer-turned-pastry chef and her...

1st slice. We celebrated Pi(e) Day in great style last Friday, with a plentiful pie potluck, live music from The Keezletown Strutters , ...

It's mid-March and I'm looking out to icicles dripping from my roof and the sounds of the neighbor kids having a snow ball fight ...