Excerpted from Tasting Ohio: Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State (Farcountry Press, 2018)
They may be the official state snack food of West Virginia, but y...
One of my clients, a large retail corporation, occasionally gives me assignments to develop recipes for a mainstream American audience. I love working with the ...
Pawpaw Pudding
Serves 6-12
This is an old-fashioned baked pudding, not as creamy as a custard but smooth and rich, with intriguing caramel notes and an undeniable pawpaw kick.
With a food processor, it takes only minutes to blitz that batter toget...
Most of the people living in the Mid-Ohio Valley have never tasted a pawpaw. These egg-shaped fruits have a freckled green skin, and look unassuming enough on t...
“I can’t justify meeting up this month,” I’ve thought a few times. “I’ve got way too much work to do.” But then I listen to my gut, make the time, and gladly se...
We went there on a whim. I’d been to Marietta’s Children’s Toy & Doll Museum before, when I was a kid myself. This was in the 1980s on a Girl Scout field trip, and even then I’d found it a bit creepy and bush-league, full of fading playthings arr...
Fresh sweet corn is the ne plus ultra of summer produce. Tomatoes bruise and squish more easily, but it is the deceptively delicate sweet corn that demands spec...
Surely you've driven past the lush gardens on Hart Street behind Food 4 Less in Marietta. Have you ever wondered what the storybehind that place is? Are the pl...
A burger is a burger, unless it’s the House of Wines burger, which is in a class of its own. The patty has a juicy interior, with an outer crust boasting just the right amount of sear. A generous smear of tangy roasted garlic and rosemary aioli total...
What happens to the food no one buys at the grocery store? The lopsided apples or the day-old breads? The answer is not a fun one. Most of the time, it goes str...
A Marietta native and a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, Sara's writing has appeared in Best Food Writing 2014, Saveur, Lucky Peach, The Oregonian, and other publications. Her website is www.sausagetarian.com.
