Tender shrimp cocktail

    For Great Shrimp Cocktail Try Poaching

    Making shrimp cocktail at home is a lot easier and more affordable than you think. All it takes to make a tender and delicious shrimp cocktail that is full of bright flavors that highlight the shrimp is learning how to slowly poach the shrimp.
    Teacher eats lunch with students

    Review: The Food of A Younger Land

    If you’re looking for stories on how to make ash cakes, the right way to skin a possum, or how to celebrate rivers filled with Pacific salmon take a read through Mark Kurlansky’s The Food of a Younger Land.
    Kayaking at the Channel Islands

    At the Bar: Why Umami

    I was coming back from kayaking around the Channel Islands recently, thinking about why I wanted to start Umami and what it should be about.
    Nothing like making sun tea in the snow

    At the Bar: Thinking About Spring During the Hard Time

    It was a long bitterly cold winter in Minnesota this past year, the kind of winter that makes you think about how you can’t wait for global warming to get here.