"There is a prevailing theory that we need to know more than we actually do in order to feed ourselves well. It isn't true." – writes Chez Panisse alum, food writer, and author Tamar Adler in her first book "An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace" Adler is on to something. There is an earnest applicability to the attitude that we can actually nourish ourselves fully – completely…

  PIECE OF MIND is a survey of the sensorial details and qualities that are front-of-mind for the women who inspire us.     A place: the library An idea: joy as presence  A palette: dusk A sound: underwater distortion A texture: hand against the grain, the back of my lover's head a few days after it has been shaven A taste: kimchi! A discovery: a brief conversation with a…

  "[Travel is about] removing the minutia of the everyday and being truly present in the place I am in." Earlier this season we accompanied Karen Mordechai on a trip to Mexico City — Mordechai is the founder of Sunday Suppers, a food community with roots in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. With Sunday Suppers, she has published a range of cookbooks (including "Simple Fare"), created a line of pantry…

  Describing someone as a genre-defining food blogger, recipe developer, and photographer sounds dauntingly impressive ... and yet for Heidi Swanson, it's actually only telling a part of her story. Fifteen years ago she found herself amid a creative lull between jobs — the outlet for her energy would become 101 Cookbooks. A food journal chronicling her take on seemingly simple, wholesome…