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Ratatouille Redux

During most of the Covid-19 pandemic, Christian’s and my food explorations were back-burnered. We stopped our socially distanced cooking in his garage last Spring, but not before we put together two dozen packages of homemade granola for friends and family. With...

“What’s For Dinner Tonight?”

Amory with Cooper My wife Amory looks forward to Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday Cooking with Chala meals. Interesting recipes, created in another family’s kitchen, translate into a diversity of flavors and no sink of encrusted pots to scrub. Clean-up’s her job at...

Dragon Fruit: Worth It?

Five lonely dragon fruit, nestled together in a large cardboard box, caught my attention at the grocery store. My grandson and I are always on the lookout for what’s unfamiliar, untasted, and to us, exotic. However, the $5.98 price tag on a single, fist-sized piece of...

An Introduction: Who’s Chala?

His friends call him Chala, a nickname from his high school and college days as a soccer player. I call him by his given name, Christian. The ending of Christian’s soccer seasons, my retirement as a spectator, and his hiatus from employment, prompted a question:...