A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments.

An urban insurgent's guide to real food for life...

The blog has been sustained since the beginning by relentless curiosity and the pursuit of pleasure.  From basic weeknight dinners to 8-hour barbecue projects.

Why sauté when you can confit?

Recipes from a cook passionate about food and wine.

The focus of this blog is home style cooking with a heavy emphasis on frugal, budget stretching meals, home economics and preserving food.