
Recently I sat down to chat with my friends Alison Donnelly and Ereka Vetrini. We’re all parents of young children, and we enjoyed sharing our thoughts about a few parenting issues. Our first topics were the basics: food, sleep, and talking to your kids about sex. And then the conversation turned to discipline, what to […]

Last week I was hungry for an old-fashioned roast –something for a cozy, casual family dinner with plenty for leftovers. A large beef roast, though, is something of a high-stakes undertaking. To start, it’s a big ticket. And you need to watch your investment pretty closely as it cooks –get the internal temperature too low, […]

The “wintry mix” of snow and rain is falling hard outside my window, so it’s time for another kind of wintry mix –a Scotch-based cocktail called the Bobbie Burns. Scotch whiskey has a following of purists who prefer to drink it “neat,” or maybe with a single cube of ice or a splash of water. […]