tools & utensils

  • I Get to Talk About Cast Iron on the Eater Channel

    The YouTube video interview I did on cast iron has just been released. What a super day I had discussing one of my favorite kitchen tools – everything cast iron! I’ve been collecting cast iron cookware since way back in…

  • Upcoming Indigo House Events

    A reminder that spaces at my Food History dinners for this summer season 2021 are filling fast! Make your reservations at www.indigohouse.us   AND the first Canning class of this season will be Sunday, July 25, 2021 – make your reservations…

  • Self–reliance versus Self-sufficiency: An ongoing series of meditations

    None of us are self-sufficient. We all need somebody! Despite the often nostalgic retro-interpretations (our national idealization of Little House on the Prairie comes to mind!) Americans weren’t self-sufficient in the Colonial past, the Revolutionary Era nor the long 19th…