What’s with the obsession this girl has with radishes?  Even though nature’s magenta is reason enough to make friends with this food, it was 1 calorie per radish that required me to make more effort to work it into my diet. Just check the nutritional info over to the left [...]

Elizabeth, longtime-crunchtime, texted a photo of a gorgeous bunch of vivid radishes that caught her attention at a farmers market. “What can I do with these?” I believe were her words (although, she is my best friend and I have had to delete our past conversations more often than we [...]

Many years ago, I worked in cable television to support my culinary habit of wanting tasting menus at fine restaurants. Thank you Charlie Trotter for helping me part with many hard earned dollars. In my  business, we had a group of customers we referred to as “truck chasers.” These delicious [...]

If you’re a food enthusiast like me and even if you’re not but you have been anywhere in the lifestyle news spectrum lately – like the second hour of the Today Show – you most likely have heard the lectures on family dining including that from a new book The [...]