Leah Eskin

Rhubarb, featured flavor of humble pie, is trending. Have you seen the selfies? Cray-cray. Credit Julie Jones, British home baker, who posts tarts of astounding complexity (Instagram: julie_jonesuk). Checkerboard. Stripes....

Every action provokes an opposite and equally aggravating reaction. This is the third law of motion, more or less, and because it is the law, you must obey. For instance,...

The student begins his studies with the life cycle, as expressed in the tadpole. Using observational technique, field notebook and pencil, he draws a dot, and, in shorthand common to...

The asparagus must be hitting snooze. Each morning, before I walk Milo, we drop by their bed. Each morning the covers remain rumpled. Perhaps we catch the faint snuffle of...

Soup dumplings, darling pork-packed pillows, differ from their landlocked cousins in one detail: They're bursting with broth. Posing a puzzle worthy of the trivia app HQ: How does the soup...

Rundown is a spicy fish stew, the bouillabaisse of Jamaica. It simmers so long it runs down, which is to say thickens up. I expected a long day of running...

Sweet meets sour in the lemon meringue tart, which is fitting, given that the tart, ever the coquette, swings both sweet and sour. Crisp pastry, quivering lemon, buoyant meringue —...

Poor Clementine. The darling may be lost and gone forever but her banjo-plucking eulogist doesn’t sound dreadful sorry. Listen, this bit of Americana twangs, you can stub your toe, fall...

The chicken buttons her feathered lab coat, tucks a clipboard under wing and turns to her work: curing the common cold. Her efforts have yielded Chicken Soup, the standard of...