Archive - Dishin’ It Up, with Michele Anna Jordan

Kitchen: How To Eat Spaghetti

When all else fails, spaghetti can save the day, help you get your strength back, or simply delight you, as it has for my entire life. I look back on a…

Jun 14

Sex & A Single Grape

My first essay on wine, written at a time when so many of us were young, tender, and naive.

Jun 5

May 2025

From My Archives: Spring Fever

The world is a constant sensual invitation, if only we allow ourselves to see it.

May 29

From My Archives: Wraps Rant

A wrap is a fashion accessory, not an edible wrapper.

May 29

March 2025

Grab Bag: How a Baseball Game Changed My Life

A single player in a single game transformed who I would become.

Mar 28

February 2025

Kitchen: Artichokes, California's Official State Vegetable

Most commercial farms have switched to thornless varieties, but two farms still grow the delicious Green Globe. Here is a bit of history, with 4 great…

Feb 18

Vintage: . . . and don't call me girlfriend!

Vintage is a new category, with essays, recipes, audio interviews, and more from my archives.

Feb 2

January 2025

Grab Bag: Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Remembrance

Weaving together three strands of my own life, while the world bows its head in remembrance.

Jan 27

Grab Bag: Ask Michele

After a two-month hiatus, I'm back, answering questions about sheep milk and matsutake mushrooms and explaining my absence.

Jan 27

December 2024

Grab Bag: Ask Michele

If you have a question about winter foods, holiday cooking, Christmas breakfast, a special New Year's Eve dinner, now's the time to ask.

Dec 10, 2024

Kitchen: Citrus Season

In the first of four posts about citrus, I explore recipes that call for lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruit and need little or no cooking. N

Dec 10, 2024

November 2024

Kitchen: Cranberries!

The athletes of the fruit world are essential to the season, delicious in chutney, salsa, vinaigrette, mignonette, other sauces, fruit compote, pies…

Nov 24, 2024

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