Leah Eskin

Salt cod is a Christmas specialty, somewhere. So at Christmastime I bought a brick. I stuck it in the back of the fridge, remembering that it's supposed to keep forever....

Kitchen and chicken are practically the same thing, at least to the dyslexic and the hungry. Which makes sense. Every kitchen should meet regularly with chicken. It's the dish that...

Spinach is the active sort, bouncing around the salad, twirling through the health drink, cheering up the omelet. Hardly inert. It's ert. The naysayer disses spinach, calling it dull, limp,...

It's nutcracker season, time to slip into a ballet-pink dress and settle in for "The Nutcracker." This year, as every year, young Clara twirls through her parents' Christmas party, where...

Home on the Range The housing collapse is discouraging, especially during the festive season, when so many of us are trying to keep the gingerbread house standing. It's not easy....

The holidays call for the holiday party, and the holiday party calls for toffee. The imported sort, coated with dark chocolate and dusted with praline. And the domestic sort, compiled...

The cook relies on salt. Not too much, for fear of salty. Not too little, for fear of bland. She aims for just right. Once, she considered salt the final...

The sages claim: What goes around, comes around. And you find this observation true. For instance: You pull the last recycling bag from the box, then slide the empty box...