The Flexitarian Cook

“This is why we don’t go out to eat very often: what you make at home is so good, restaurant food ends up being disappointing.” I’m not sure any other food critic would have been this kind, but my 17-year old daughter certainly had a way of letting me know she enjoyed her lunch; I’ll [...]

My daughter has often been the primary motivator for the vegetarian recipes I have written about here. She turned vegetarian around the age of 11, and since then, the rest of us have seriously curbed our consumption of meat and poultry, even if we still enjoy those once or twice a week (we’re flexitarians after [...]

Yesterday afternoon, I was in Chelsea on some business, and when that was over, my husband and I thought we’d use the rest of our time in the city walking over to the Union Square green market. It has to be one of the best outdoor markets around, with dozens of vendors coming from the [...]