Archive for March, 2012

By Nadia Arumugam |

What to Feed A Detoxing Husband: Vegetable and Lentil Soup

  As you may have suspected from the title of the post, my husband, Peter, is indeed in the midst of a detox. I’m doing my best to be supportive, mostly out of guilt for not embarking on this arduous journey with him. But if we are both bereft of energy and starving who will [Read more]

By Charity Shumway |

Ranunculus, Queen of Spring

I really hope the tulips of the world won’t take this personally, because I love them, really I do, but they’re not my favorite flower. Michael Pollan has a great way of describing tulips in the Botany of Desire — they’re Apollonian beauty. Simple. Perfect. Male. I’m delighted to see them every spring, but my [Read more]

By Nadia Arumugam |

Book Review: Soul-Warming Comfort Fare with “Rustic Italian”

There are a few things for which I am whole-heartedly grateful: a bottomless appetite for all things chocolate, ridiculously bad circulation rendering my iceberg-cold fingers the ultimate pastry-making tools, and a job that allows me to work at home, in my comfy “work” sweats, 2 feet away from my kitchen, and with a view of [Read more]