Bread

On my recent trip to San Francisco, I ate a lot of toast. Toast, you ask? I too was skeptical when Micah first suggested it. “You’ve never had toast like this before,” he promised. “Get ready for your mind to be TOAST-blown.” Nerd. Upon arriving at The Mill, we grabbed a loaf…

We do a really simple salad dressing in China: rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, and coarse sugar. It seriously goes with everything – cold noodles, dumplings, baozi, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, peanuts, scallion pancakes – seriously, everything! So why not put it on panzanella salad? You’ll need hearty whole wheat or whole grain country bread, cubed and pan…

When Chompy was still living in Boston but making frequent trips to NYC, he used to bring back an edible gift every time, including macarons from my favorite Maison du Chocolat, a chocolate mousse hedgehog we named Bruno, and once, a loaf of cornbread, which was kind of a weird gift to bring to a…

This is my third, and best, loaf of bread. I recruited my friend Max to be my taste-tester, and he agrees that this is the best of the three. After eating the bread I helped him with his online dating profile. Fair trade. I tend to aggressively spice my bread…