Thomas Herbruck’s father came home with a still when Tom was 15; at that tender age he would distill his first spirits along with helping his father make wine[...]

One final cocktail using applejack, simply from a couple of web searches. This is my final post until after Labor Day, so I wanted a cocktail that packed a[...]

I’m finishing up the third of four technique books this week, then giving myself an end-of-summer break. I’ll be back September 2nd. In the[...]

In June I interviewed Dan Barber at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland about his superb new book The Third Plate. Barber is not only one of the[...]

  When Donna and I stay in New York we are five blocks away from my favorite butcher in the city. And it is my favorite not simply because it’s the[...]

                              Alerted about an article on Slate that runs counter to[...]

For now, that is. I need to focus on work and, well, most things come to an end, no? Though the inevitable catastrophe of death awaits us all, not so for the[...]

The above photograph (by Donna Turner Ruhlman) is of family meal at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. The below essay was originally published by Finesse, Thomas[...]

                            I think I post this recipe and preparation each year because[...]

With all this talk about the home cooked meal with family—is it an elite foodie construct, a romantic ideal that make parents, moms in particular, guilty, or a[...]

I’m at Old Dominion University as a writer in residence and also opening up the annual literary festival, which is devoted this year to food and[...]

It was the simplest of observations. I’d never heard it made, but it crystalized for me yet another facet of America’s dysfunctional relationship[...]

  Virginia Heffernan adds to the increasing noise about how unfair cooking is for working moms in the NYT magazine. I’m a fan of her work, but her Sunday[...]

Key Lime Daiquiri. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. This blast of arctic air and wind and snow and gray has me longing for the lovely afternoons and evenings of[...]

A quick shot of last night’s half-time dinner: picadillo on yellow rice with black beans. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I followed a recipe for the[...]