Curiosity about daily life and food and culture at home and elsewhere
curious about food and agricultural traditions in the wider world; striving to keep my beginner's mind open. Author of books of travel stories and recipes, including The Miracle of Salt, Taste of Persia, and Burma.
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Essays weaving food and culture, memory, history and politics together.
Weekly banter from my kitchen porch: food, wine, people, places, Maine, the Mediterranean, the whole wide world.
Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.