My friend Heather created an amazing surprise for those of us who have been cooking together in Denver. We've been cooking in groups of 2 or 3 and then meeting for food swaps. There are about 14 of us now. One of our problems is we aren't so organized in sharing our recipes. So Heather came up with ...
Healthy Living Web SIte of the Week
from RevolutionHealth.com February 21, 2008 Healthy Living Web Site of the Week! No time to cook or see your friends? Why not combine your cooking with your social life? Get some tips from Cooking with Friends, a site dedicated "having fun in the kitchen, where you can nourish your family and ...
Dot Com Diva to Cooking Queen
from Bisnow.com February 5, 2008 Dot Com Diva to Cooking Queen She was there from the beginning, writing about the Homeric rise and fall of the dot.com age for Washington to read about with fascination as the tech ripple turned into a tsunami. Shannon Henry, a pellucid-eyed former writer for ...
Homemade Take-Out
If you're new to the Cooking With Friends concept and aren't sure what you want to cook with your pals, think about what you reach for when it's dinnertime and there's "nothing" to eat. Look in your freezer and peruse your take-out menus. Then make some homemade take-out. Especially if you have ...
Friendship Fruit Salad
Cooking together works for all kinds of people--young, old, men, women, those who work outside the home and stay-at-home moms. This past week I was so excited to see my daughter's class of four- and five-year-olds creating a simple but beautiful dish, Friendship Fruit Salad. Instead of bringing ...
Sunshine Committee
Among my group of friends, when someone has a new baby, breaks a bone or needs a major jolt of help, we call in the “sunshine committee.” Here’s the idea: Even when your life is in turmoil, you have to eat. People sign up for certain nights to deliver a home-cooked meal to the person in ...
Vacation Cooking
There is something wonderful about vacation cooking, when you use local ingredients to create the taste of a place. Sometimes, it's fabulous--catching your own fresh fish off the side of a boat, or learning how to make traditional sauces of a country far from home. And sometimes it calls for great ...
Where in the World is Shannon Henry?
from Bisnow.com February 4, 2008 Where in the World is Shannon Henry? You remember our friend Shannon””chronicler of the Washington dot-com age, author of the popular Download column in the Post circa '98 to '05. A lot of the companies she wrote of (ah, the days of Teligent, PSINet, Proxicom, ...
Kitchen Mates
Some of you might think I'm crazy and many of you might not relate. But my husband Ben is one of my best cooking friends. I swear this is not just about Valentine's day and he does tend to have a Top Chef attitude--standing over a pot and asking for ingredients to be handed to him. We are working ...
On Our Bookshelf in February
The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones -- A fascinating memoir by the cookbook editor who discovered Julia Child. See how significant and prevalent cooking with others has been in Ms. Jones' life. read Alison's blog entry about The Tenth Muse. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ...