Micheline Maynard's posts

This time of year, farmer’s markets and fruit and vegetable stands abound with squash. There’s a size and a style…

Toronto isn’t supposed to get that hot in the summer, so I was not expecting to be dripping with sweat a few hours…

Welcome to Turn Off The Oven Week, featuring creative ways to beat the heat and stay far away from your stovetop.

When I was learning to cook, American rolling pins came in only one style: a wooden dowel that had a handle on…

I grew up at a time when a lot of dads didn’t routinely cook. My dad, Frank H. Maynard, certainly didn’t.

Some people look at Pyrex mixing bowls and see something retro, maybe the kind of thing their grandmothers cooked…

Assembling is an easy and creative cooking method that takes prepared food—from grocery stores, restaurants, or…

If you were to rank American family feast days, you’d most likely put Thanksgiving first, followed by Christmas. But…

It’s a little hard to envision Passover dinners without big groups of people gathered around the table and groaning…

As I mentioned when I wrote about Irish Soda Bread, I’m not Irish, despite my craving for Irish carbs. I grew up in…

Assembling is an easy and creative cooking method that takes prepared food—from grocery stores, restaurants, or…

I’m not Irish. My background is a mix of French, British, and Latvian. I’m not even Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. And…

Assembling is an easy and creative cooking method that takes prepared food—from grocery stores, restaurants, or…

Assembling is an easy and creative cooking method that takes prepared food—from grocery stores, restaurants, or…

Every year, I try to attend Camp Bacon. And yes, it’s what it sounds like: a week of bacon-centered events put on by…

When I was a kid, I had zero interest in beets. They either came sliced in glass jars or comprised the base for the…

My mother loved to entertain, and the parties that my parents threw invariably involved her cut-glass punch bowl.…

Don’t get me wrong: Holiday cookies are great, but after weeks of parties, you can end up with a permanent sugar…

Of all the first ladies, Betty Ford was the coolest. Michelle Obama was hip, to be sure, and Jacqueline Kennedy was…

Comb back through 100 years of White House Thanksgivings, and you’ll see that presidents eat a lot of turkey and…