This is an excerpt from my personal essay (food writing), published by Leite's Culinaria in August 2010. The essay details my year-long journey baking a simple nut and spice cake for Saint Phanourios, the Greek Orthodox patron saint of the lost and found.



"I’m hardly what you’d call devout. Baptized Presbyterian, despite being Greek on my mother’s side, I know next to nothing about saints. I do, however, know a thing or two about… Continue

A valentine to my kitchen scale: a short piece of mine was published on the Leite's Culinaria website as part of a Valentine's Day feature called "Ode to a Microplane . . . and 18 other declarations of kitchen love." Other contributors include Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate & Zucchini, plus David Lebovitz of Living the Sweet Life in Paris. Fine company, I'd say.



An excerpt is on my blog, Feeding the Saints,… Continue