Darwin's enchiladas

My fellow Texans have an unusual influence on your kids' textbooks, it turns out. If Texans could do this with food, we'd really be getting somewhere–you know, force enchiladas Suizas onto the menu at fancy New York French restaurants just to curl the...

Resolution Ritual

I really got into the whole New Year’s resolution “thing” soon after college, when my high school friend, Susan, stayed with me over New Year’s. We had one of those delicious, early twenties’ visits (time at cafés talking, time...