This week in my food writing class we’re reading Jane Kramer’s superb 2002 essay “The Reporter’s Kitchen,” first published in The New Yorker. I was introduced to this essay several years ago by Sara Franklin, a PhD candidate at New York University—and professor—whose work these days centers on Judith Jones, editor of Julia Child, James Beard, Marcella Hazan, […]

Today we begin a new semester, and I’ll begin this semester with a new essay from me, published earlier this month in Virginia Quarterly Review: “Good For You: What Makes a Happy Family?” Here’s a snippet to account for the picture of the Buddha above. This past summer, not long into a fairly strenuous hike in the woods of […]