True Confessions: From Gastronomy to the Gastric Sleeve

Anyone who knows me is well aware of my love of food. I like to cook it, bake it, eat it, write about it, talk ad nauseum about it and was humiliated on national TV because of it. I even gave up a 30-year career in daily journalism to pursue my food-inspired talents. So why […]

Farming for New Opportunities? Many of Us Are Doing It!

After years of turning my nose up at bumper stickers and their stupid sentiments like “I Love My (Dog’s Head)” and “Ask Me About My Grandchildren,” I succumbed. It came in the mail a few months ago with a thank you from the American Farmland Trust for my donation. It reads, “No Farms, No Food.” […]

From Nordstrom to Costco: It’s a Wonderful Life

I ran into an Epicurious post today on Facebook that professed the web culinistas’ love for Costco. The article – 14 Things We Love About Costco — ran in November, so why it appeared today in my newsfeed is a mystery, but it did strike a cord. Because I, too, feel the need to show […]

‘Baking Bad’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’

When I decided to the pull the plug on my 30-year career in daily journalism last winter, my partner, Gayle Fee, suggested — with a straight face so I knew she was kidding — that I open a “kush bakery.” “It’s gold, Jerry, GOLD,” she joked, using one of our favorite and oft-quoted “Seinfeld” lines. […]

I’m A New Small Business Owner. Ho, Ho Ho…

It’s been awhile since my last post. But, you see, I’ve helped to start a business. Our new venture is called Goat Cottage Farm. It’s a gluten-free, dairy-free bakery in Westport. That’s right, gluten-free and me. I apprenticed at Flour for crying out loud. My partner in this adventure into the land of sorghum flour […]