A.E. Dwyer's posts

Looking into the abyss of my freezer can be a little underwhelming these days. I peer into it and paw through all…

Like many of our readers, I’ve spent a lot of time at home this summer. So much so that I’ve had to invent ways to…

Will the farmer’s markets come back as they once were? I sure hope so, not just because I derive great joy from…

A few years ago I spent a magical birthday in the hinterlands of Madison, Wisconsin. Don’t laugh. It was my idea of…

I would never try to deny corned beef and cabbage its place as the official meal of St. Patrick’s Day in America. I…

Welcome to Biscuit Week, a special time set aside to cherish the most buttery and beloved of all quick breads.

It’s the dead of winter, and most of the fun holidays are behind us—but there’s still months of cold and slush to…

Growing up, the only cream of mushroom soup I’d ever had was the salty, milky goop that comes from a can. It wasn’t…

Pork with crackling. I had never had it, but often longed for it. Pork tenderloin, sure. Baked pork chops,…

Poached chicken. It sounds like a bland technique on an easily bland meat. But I’m telling you, poaching produces…

My mother-in-law’s best friend is a Filipino woman whose favorite thing was to host elaborate feasts, which would…

I am in favor of the trend of making vegetables taste like Buffalo chicken wings. Who wouldn’t be intrigued? It’s…

The most elegant dish I know is also the simplest. A few years ago, a chef friend told us about his corn soup. He…

The other day on Twitter, two of that website’s biggest food personalities engaged in a very brief back-and-forth…

It’s a classic tale. Girl meets sandwich. Girl has to share sandwich with two oafs at her table that takes way too…

I temper my expectations when I read “contraption recipes,” the dishes involving slow cookers and Instant Pots, air…

Let us declare hiyashi chuka the summer dish of 2019. Think of it as a deconstructed bowl of ramen, minus the hot…

Depending on where you are when you read this, it is July 11 somewhere in the world, and as such a certain…

Toasted white bread spread with microwaved cheese spread was a prized snack of my childhood. It was a total thrill…

A few years ago when my husband and I were a spry, travel-loving couple instead of the couch-bound dullards we’ve…