Human Interest

Recipes: 'Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned'

12:03pm May 26, 2009

In Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned, Elizabeth Karmel skips the usual macho seminar on flame-taming and gear, and instead trains her laser-like focus on the real prize: where the flavor comes from.

Lemongrass and Sweet Corn Soup with Creme Fraiche

Recipes: 'The Modern Vegetarian'

11:49am May 26, 2009

There's something sweetly avant-garde about the recipes in Maria Elia's The Modern Vegetarian, a book that loves its grains and vegetables for their own sake, not for their ability to masquerade as meat or camouflage its absence.

Recipes: 'Vefa's Kitchen'

11:09am May 26, 2009

So many of the elements of the Greek kitchen are well known, yet for one reason or another they don't add up to something we turn to night after night. Maybe that's because there hasn't been a basic, here's-how-we-do-it Greek Joy of Cooking — until now.

The Heritage Rosarium: A Once-A-Year Experience

3:25pm May 24, 2009

It takes an obsession to create a rose garden as glorious as the one Nick Weber has grown at his home in Ashton, Md. He calls it the "Heritage Rosarium," and it's filled with nearly 700 heirloom varieties of ramblers and climbers. Nick and his wife, Roseanne, open the garden to the public only once a year on Memorial Day weekend.

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The Heritage Rosarium: A Once-A-Year Experience

3:25pm May 24, 2009

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The Matzo Ball Matriarch of American Jewish Food

12:06am April 12, 2009

The Settlement Cook Book is largely forgotten today. But in its time, Lizzie Black Kander's book exposed Jewish homemakers transplanted from Eastern Europe to the American way of cooking — and living.

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