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short ribs

  • There Will Be Borscht

    There Will Be Borscht

    Recently I interviewed Dorie Greenspan on my Instagram Live and she talked about how she’s been cooking so much lately from cookbooks. I confessed that I’d fallen into a rut where I just keep making the same things over and over again: roast chicken with root vegetables, pasta, pork chops, pasta, soup, pasta. Did I…

  • The Ultimate Five-Hour Meat Ragu

    The Ultimate Five-Hour Meat Ragu

    Gather ye round, friends, and hear the tale of a ragu that cooked for five hours, perking away on the stove as the many pieces of meat that went into it–lamb shoulder, pork ribs, short ribs–slowly broke down and contributed their fat and flavor to the tomatoes and onions and garlic that made up the…

  • Casellula, Maison Kayser & Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria

    Casellula, Maison Kayser & Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria

    You may not be surprised to learn that when it comes to what I eat, at any given moment, I can be a bit of a control freak. In fact I have a theory that most food people are control freaks: what better way to control what goes into your body than to become an…

  • It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

    It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

    When I told my friend Alex that I was cooking a dinner for my parents and Craig’s parents at the end of last week, Alex (who knew me in college) said to me: “Did you ever think, 10 years ago, that this would ever happen? That you’d cook a dinner one day for your parents…