'The Gefilte Manifesto,' Christmas pickles, holiday cookies

Japanese turnips

Laura Avery sneaks a peak into chef DJ Olsen's shopping basket this week at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market. He's inspired by chef Tony Esnault's legumes de saison at...

6 min

A little nibble for the cookie-obsessed

Dorie Greenspan 's prodigious new cookbook is Dorie's Cookies . This isn't a regular cookie book. It's a tome: an encyclopedia of one baker's obsession with the cookie,...

10 min

Hanging up the Christmas pickle

There are plenty of traditions surrounding the holiday season, but perhaps one of the most obscure is the Christmas pickle. Jane Lear , the executive editor of CURED ,...

7 min

Scandinavian comfort food for the soul

The Danish have a word, "hygge," which chef and food writer Trine Hahnemann describes as "trying to find all the little moments during the day where you can relax and feel...

8 min