Dana Severance

What we eat has a direct effect on our health. There aren’t many who argue this, and a movement towards more conscientious eating has taken hold. We’re rediscovering food. And, on doctor’s orders, many of us are removing sugars, fats, and allergens from our diets. When you look at what you eat more carefully, that [...]

My sister and I have decided to start another weekly (to bi-weekly) family ritual to make sure that the ties that we actually see one another more frequently than for holidays. Like all good traditions and rituals, it involves food!

It is now April and I’ve had several months to work towards the New Years resolutions that I made earlier in the year. At that point, I kept it short and I knew which ones I’d have problems with. So, here’s for the update:

Just this past week, Bookmans sent me on a trip to the fine city of Austin, Texas for a conference known as South by Southwest. This wonderful event is almost more of a festival of nerddom than any sort of coherent conference. As far as I can tell, this is what gives SXSW its interesting [...]

Every once in a while I find a foodstuff that just rocks my world. It’s the kind of thing you sneak up in the middle of the night to grab another taste of. I’ve done this with several different condiments in my life. Most recently is the delicious rice topping known as furikake.