Posts by Emily Simon

There is a moment most chicken keepers know well. You are hauling another 50-pound bag of layer pellets from the truck to the coop, and somewhere between the parking lot and the gate you start...

There is a jar of peanut butter in most American kitchens right now. It has been there so long that nobody really thinks about it anymore. It gets scooped onto toast, spread onto apples, stirred into...

There's a particular kind of gardening frustration that every tomato grower knows. You did everything right. You amended the soil. You watered consistently. You staked the plants carefully and...

There's a sound that belongs to childhood. Not a song, not a voice — a sound. The soft, rapid crackling of Rice Krispies hitting cold milk. The way it starts immediately, builds for a few...

What if you could open a jar, drain it, pat it dry, and have perfectly crispy French fries on the table in 15 minutes — without a freezer, without a grocery run, and without a single...

Pick up the onion powder in your spice cabinet right now. Look at the label. Turn it over. Read the ingredients. If it's a standard grocery store brand, you'll find two things: "onion" and...