I’m reading and enjoying a book I was given for my birthday: THE CITY WE BECAME by award-winning writer N. K. Jemisin. In it, the City of New York is “born” as a living city with the help of a young man who, not knowing…

After spending my vacation eating omnivorisly, I was jonesing for vegan. This particular dish was not an unequivocal success, although it actually tasted pretty darn good. I scored some tender fall kale at the farmers market, so I tore it into bits and dry-fried it…

While we were on our trip, we generally ate at fast food joints on the road for convenience and speed, but we relied on Google for suggestions on local places to try after we had stopped for the day. It never steered us wrong. In…