Comfort Food Classics

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just roast the turkey breast on a bed of cranberries instead of fussing with a separate glaze. I started … Read more

The Saturday market vendor watched me circle back to his stall for the third time. I kept picking up packages of ground venison, reading the … Read more

There used to be a tiny Southern café tucked behind a gas station off Highway 17 in Wilmington called Miss Patsy’s that made a sweet … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a rainy Tuesday in late October, and I had a very specific craving for Thanksgiving dinner. Not the whole chaotic, … Read more

Megan wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to drop off a book she’d lent me, and the smell hit me before I even … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, stuck in a two-hour wait at the DMV, listening to Mr. Henderson describe … Read more

I was at the hardware store last October, of all places, trying to decide between two different types of garden hoses. A man in a … Read more

I was standing in the produce aisle of my local grocery store last Tuesday, just staring at a bin of these funny little striped squashes. … Read more

I had refused to make a Halloween snack mix for years. A solid decade, at least. The whole concept felt like a kitchen afterthought—a sad … Read more

I was at the hardware store, of all places, buying a new snow shovel last November when the guy ringing me up—a guy named Gary … Read more