In the Kitchen

Food writing here isn't about rules. It's about what actually holds up once it leaves the study and lands on a plate — what three generations of growing the stuff, and a few decades of eating it, taught me to trust. Some of it agrees with the research. Some of it argues with it.

Trusted Sources

• Food Safety Recalls & Outbreaks — Where I check before I write anything that touches what's actually safe to eat.
• Oldways / Mediterranean Diet — The clearest source I've found on how the Mediterranean pattern actually works, not the magazine version of it.
• EatingWell — Practical, not preachy — recipes and reporting that don't oversell.
• Cook's Illustrated / America's Test Kitchen — For the actual cooking side — technique, not nutrition science.
• Bon Appétit — If you want a livelier, less clinical voice in the mix.
• Marion Nestle's Food Politics — Sharper, more skeptical read on the food industry side of things.