MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: FRAN COSTIGAN When I first interviewed Fran Costigan, for Huffington Post. I knew she was: A classically-trained pastry chef (butter, white sugar, eggs, dairy, all that) The doyenne of vegan desserts — real ones you’d actually want to eat. She baked Rip Esselstyn’s wedding cake, okay? A force of nature, a high-energy New…
The World on a Plate
I’ve been at work on a book called Feeding the Hungry Ghost, which while peppered with recipes is not quite a cookbook, it’s like this blog — it talks about food but it also talks about faith. It’s not driven by nutritional information, it’s driven by narrative, by story. A literary agent initially interested in…
Dolcia Somnia Quadruus (Sweet Dreams Squares)
To Sleep, Perchance “Me thought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!” Oh, jeez, Macbeth, you, too? Even those of us who haven’t killed a king have insomnia issues. There’s not one, but two types of insomnia, both of them bite. There’s your not-being-able-to-fall-asleep-at-all, bad enough, but the other is the really diabolical one….
