You can find my writing each week via my Substack, French Fries and Martinis.

For a full portfolio of my SAVEUR contributions from 2022-2025, click here.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selected):

• Breakfast Before the Battle: A Forced Feast at Barrett’s Farm (Edible Boston, Spring 2025)

• How the Caesar Salad Changed the Way We Eat (Serious Eats, July 2024)

• On its 20th anniversary, the film ‘Sideways’ is still teaching us how to drink and think about wine (The Boston Globe, September 2024)

• Southern Hospitality? The Abstracted Labor of the Whole Pig Roast (Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, January 2024)

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  OLDER:

• 10/27/2016: Capturing the 1970s food movement in design: David Lance Goines and Alice Waters's "30 Recipes Suitable for Framing" (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 5/23/2016: Potable quotables on the 40th anniversary of the Paris Tasting (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 11/23/2015: The Story of 4 Thanksgiving Ingredients (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 7/23/2015: Inside the Demonstration Kitchen (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 5/1/2015: 5 big questions behind American sushi (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 4/7/2015: Chicken, Eggs, and the Changing American Diet (from the NMAH Blog, O Say Can You See?)

• 4/8/2013: Some New York Bars (from Full Stop)

• 4/22/2010: Meet me! (and some of the other Borzoi Cooks)

•  4/2/2010: Brisket for Passover (from Joan Nathan)

• 3/2/2010: Maryetta's Oatmeal Bread (from James Beard)

• 11/12/2009: Chicken Pot Pie (from Jason Epstein)

• 10/22/2009: Mastering the Art of French Coping (French food in the footsteps of Julia Child and Judith Jones) 

• 9/15/2009:Fillet of Fish in Parchment, and Summer Berry Pudding (from Judith Jones)

• 7/8/2009: Attempting Boeuf Bourguignon (from Julia Child)

• 6/10/2008: Plating Well in a Small Kitchen (from Not Eating out in New York)