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Three (Lovely) Things

We shouldn’t neglect the things in life that are important to us, that give us joy, but it happens, sometimes: the luxurious yoga class, the slow walk in nature and, for me, the quiet time—early morning, coffee at my elbow—when I write these post. I’ve been working crazy hours to finish the edits on my book, How to Share an Egg, and it’s been a spell since I’ve written here. Too long.

But! My final manuscript goes in May 1, and soon after that, I’ll have cover art to share. Meanwhile, here comes ...

Rhubarb and Crab Apples

Rhubarb raspberry streusel cake (recipe below)

Do you remember pen pals? Looking back, it seems funny and antiquated to have had a friend far away that I could only reach with an envelope and a stamp. I remember listening for the mailman with bated breath and checking the stack of grownup mail, very occasionally pulling out a pink or blue evelope with another child’s handwriting, addressed just to me.

How pleasingly retro-modern then, to have found a new pen pal, here on Substack. Her name is an...

The Fruit Man

Big sister Adell, Baba Sarah and me (in the fur)

The past couple of weeks have been fruitful at Field & Pantry. A lovely crop of new subscribers have found their way to this space—welcome!—while I’ve been working on crystallizing my mission and refining my About page. Why am I here? I’ve been asking myself. (Not here on the planet, which is another thing I sometimes wonder when my eyes pop open at 4 am, but here on Substack, which is also worth asking, even if it’s a touch less existential).

Thi...

Cooking to Cure Writer's Block

Isn’t it amazing, the way your outlook can change from day to day? You go to bed feeling terrible and wake up with good energy pulsing through your veins. Or maybe you drift off happy and wake up crabby. Moods can be as fleeting as dead leaves blowing around in the March wind. On the other hand, they can settle in for a longer haul, dampening your spirit and making everything heavy and difficult.

To me, this is the definition of writer’s block—a certain feeling of cut-off-ness from the sense of...

Life and Lemons

Greetings from stormy Santa Barbara, where I’m holed up in a hotel room after being evacuated from a rental cottage in Montecito. If you are one of my lovely new subscribers, let me welcome you and tell you this is not how my newsletters normally begin. Normal is Toronto, where I’m a cook and a food writer and a memoirist, finishing a book called How to Share An Egg (Penguin Random House, January 2025). Field & Pantry, this newsletter to which you have so generously subscribed, began as a counte...