Food for Thought

In this episode of FOOD, Dick Stein and Nancy Leson compare dinner roll recipes and debate the number one job of the fluffy Thanksgiving sidekick: to soak up gravy or butter?

Julia Collin Davison needed to get a feel for Northwest food resources. And who better to give the host of PBS's popular America's Test Kitchen the tour…

In this week's installment of Food for Thought, Nancy Leson and I explore the delights of dunking with not a donut or basketball in sight. Instead, we…

"The nicest thing happened last Thursday," I told Nancy Leson. It was Broadway Farmers Market day, happening right outside the door of our new Tacoma…

I'm a guy who appreciates the virtues, however imaginary, of the quick fix. And what could be more emblematic of the QF than duct tape? Surely there's…

Back by popular demand: Nancy's favorite easiest pasta sauce from 2016There's nothing I like better than spending a whole day or two working a complicated…

“It’s so much like the days of yore, when the marketplace was a place for people to meet and greet.”That’s how food commentator Nancy Leson described…

This segment originally aired June 21, 2017. "My kid finally got a real, paying job," Nancy Leson announced. Young Nate's now a B.C. barista. Which led us…

As a guy who excludes fruit from his diet, I have no business pointing a finger at anyone else's food phobias. But I will, anyway. How can my wife, the…

If you know gardeners, sooner or later one of them will present you with a zucchini the size of a baby seal. When that happens, don't wonder if there's…