Monica Kass Rogers

Traditional Christmas Pudding

STIR IT UP! That is the chorus in Britain on Stir it Up Sunday, right before Advent. Churchgoers hear, “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people,” and anyone— churched or not, with a love for boozy Christmas puddings stirs up the fruity mix to get the holidays going. Loaded

Persian Quail with Pomegranate Walnut Sauce (Fesenjan)

SWEET, TART, EARTHY AND RICH, this beautiful celebratory Persian dish originated thousands of years ago in the Iranian province of Gilan on the Caspian Sea. Today you will often see it as a stew with chicken, but the sweet-sour sauce is exceptional with game birds. Here, we have elevated the dish by serving it with

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

For all its legendary, soul-soothing status, chicken noodle soup recipes—those rich with homemade stock, fresh vegetables, herbs, and egg noodles—are rather hard to find. This classic, homemade recipe is a labor of love that will nourish you in the making, and your family, in the eating. It makes enough to serve four for one meal,

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Making Impressions

Sunlight streams through the broad windows of Carmela Heintzelman’s Lake Bluff design studio, Fiore Press Letterpress. Inside, Heintzelman leans over a composing stone, the perfectly smooth surface where she levels the plate she is about to print. Turning a cast-iron key, she locks little spring-loaded clamps (“quoins”) tight and hefts the loaded “chase” toward her

A Touch of Spicy

When my mom grew up in Houston, Texas, excursions to Galveston, where my grandfather owned land, were a beach-filled regularity. Grandfather loved fishing, and my mom loved seafood. Especially shrimp. Those days, shrimp boats were manned by a tough lot of Texans, with some Cajuns mixed in. But by the time Mom and Dad bought

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