Homemade Wonton Soup

View this post on Instagram Last Sunday I went to an incredible bier-game dinner collab with my two favorite sets of folks: @stammtischpdx and @nicky.usa. Chef @grahamchaney is a hedonist and a sadist so his “salad” course was basically a Lyonnaise with a giant confit 

Not Ready for This Jelly

Molly and Kai had me back on Make Me Smart to make a prediction for 2018! You heard it here first, folks: aspic is going to make a comeback.  

Fire and Mushrooms

I wrote about fire ecology and mushroom-hunting for Fish & Game Quarterly. I’ve been kind of worried that the piece comes off a bit glib, since the rains have not yet begun in California and real danger yet looms, but my intent was for encouragement 

The Celery Incident

I’m kind of losing it because food editor Sam Sifton shouted out my celery piece in the New York Times‘ “What to Cook Tonight” today. The food editor of the New York Times. He recommended something I wrote. /faints

Final Fantasy is Reality

My latest piece is live in the Portland Mercury!

Holiday Cheer

Food blogging has sort of jumped the shark, hasn’t it? Has anyone else noticed this? The concept that “when things I like become popular, they are ruined” has never felt truer to me than it does lately, and I think it was therapeutic (and honest?)