Guys, this week’s preamble is really late. Like almost didn’t happen. Making it less of a preamble and more of a “post-blunder.” We’ve...

I made the most thoughtless, thrown-together salad the other day. I grabbed loose shrubbery from the Tupperware at the back of the fridge, diced up half-eaten apples, the last nubs of cucumber, and crumbled mystery cheese. Like the cartoon rat in Ratatouille , but before he stepped into a kitchen. Forged from compost in the yard and created a dish that blew his rat pals away. I put the whole thing in a trough-sized to-go container, dressed it with white balsamic and good oliv

Summer so far has felt like a slapped together montage, a slide show from an epic summer camp. Not a lot of context, just a series of...