I always thought if I ever wrote a book, it would be a collection of my dad’s sayings—not a cookbook much less an article in The Pulse ....

When I wrote this piece for The Pulse , I wanted to show how much is possible with just a few people around a table. With Cook the Book ,...

When Debra Fitzgerald wrote me after my first Pulse  article and said, “If you’d ever like to write something regular, or cover something...