Pinch

Thanksgiving is nigh and pie making questions have begun trickling in. I've posted before on pie crusts, focusing on the baking. Most...

First things first: a shout out to a few new-to-me restaurants. The first is in spit-wad distance of the Pinch kitchen:  Rickshaw Republic ....

I am a big fan of caramel. As a kid I had a love-hate relationship with Wrapples , the discs of caramel that are meant to be wrapped aroun...

There's a simple reason why it's taken me so long to photograph my new favorite salsa: it's too delicious. It's gone befo...

Reprinted from the Pinch archives Many a coffee purist would shudder the thought of adding eggnog to coffee, but not this one. I've ...

Opinions abound on the cutting of lettuce, both in the prep kitchen and at the dining table.  It's one of those things that people are c...

There's a spectrum of emotional response to the how-and-when circumstances of a person's death. At one end, there's sad-but-peac...