One of the things I love most about food is how easily it can evoke certain memories within us. This summer, I’ve been volunteering with an amazing breastfeeding group in Providence, called Baby Cafe. We always have snacks available for the attendees, and one of the toddlers offered me some of his animal crackers, which I hadn’t […]
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Beet Latkes
A couple of years ago we were celebrating my hippest friend’s graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design, and visited a local vegetarian restaurant The Garden Grille. When perusing the Menu, her veg-skeptical father shouted “Beet Latkes!?!” and so I ordered them and forced him to try. Man, were they good. I love a […]
Simple Roasted Vegetables
Look at this exotic beet. I’m gonna tell you a secret. I’m gonna tell you how to make yourself look like a culinary school graduate by blindly grabbing farmer’s market produce and throwing it in the oven for a ‘lil bit. People will ooh and ahh and you will beam. Dead serious. I impress […]