Review: Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen

Mache and Avocado Salad with Tortilla Strips

This salad, from the August 2007 issue of Bon Appetit, has been one of my favorites for a long time.  As you can guess, it is a great accompaniment to a Mexican main dish.  Use it as a bed for leftover fajita chicken, or shrimp or pork and it becomes a main dish on...
Review: Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen

French Bread Pizza

Children, in the 1970s when I was growing up things were different.  As I’m sure you’ve heard, we had 3 t.v. stations, drank Tab, and rode around in gigantic cars with unused seat belts.  But did you know that they sold cigarettes in vending machines, and...
Review: Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen

Grateful for the Cooking of Others

Some of you know that my husband, Charles Gerlach, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bike race on October 1st when he collided with another cyclist (wearing his helmet as he always does). He was rushed to a nearby hospital with an excellent trauma center and went...