What You Can Cook with Your Kids
Brown Butter Apple Pie
After-School Guacamole
Declan’s Chili (Three-Bean Vegetarian Chili)
Kids in the Kitchen
Small tasks can help budding chefs grow As kids, my siblings and I only occasionally cooked—but when we did, there was drama. It usually took the form of fights or messes involving FEMA-level cleanup...
Recommended Kids’ Cookbooks
ChopChop: The Kids’ Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your Family (Simon & Schuster) Created by the founder of ChopChop, a James Beard Award–winning cooking magazine for families,...
Photo series: Playing with our food
This photo essay is all about what we dreamed of doing with food as a kid. It is about squashing things, breaking things and creating disarray. We had fun thinking about the forbidden messes of...
Italian Inspiration: A Chef Finds His Muse in Florence
As a chef, I find inspiration in my surroundings, like the farms and markets of Northwest Indiana. That inspiration is often translated into the dishes I make at Spire. Here in LaPorte, I am living...
Chef Alain Helfrich shares cooking tips and techniques
Helfrich showed up to our interview about home cooking with a two-page list of must-haves, wants and advice. “I totally understand wanting your kitchen to look pristine,” he said, “but if you can’t...
Insects could be the sustainable protein source of the future
Today insects are being called a “superfood,” since many contain amounts of protein comparable to beef, pork and chicken, in addition to iron, B12, calcium and all nine essential amino acids....
