Having copious amounts of delicious, quality honey is one of the things that makes staying at a bee farm worth the stings. This is honey that sells for $18 a quart or so, so having it at my disposal for free is a real luxury. I started playing around with baking with it, and the [...]

Today is one of those stereotypically hot desert days in southern New Mexico. I’m staying near Socorro, where the climate and landscape is dry and harsh, and where I spent several hours wandering aimlessly along a BLM road for fun. It wouldn’t be so bad except that the little cacti and shrubs offer absolutely no [...]

I try not to be, but I might as well come to terms with the fact that I’m kind of a baking snob. Making dessert is just as much science as it is art to me, and I’m always obsessively weighing just the right amounts, getting the oven to just the right temperature, using all [...]

Baking in a different kitchen always presents interesting challenges, and here at the farm I’m finding myself sort of lost in a huge mess of spices and cooking tools, never quite able to find what I’m looking for. Yet here I am with a constantly renewing supply of fresh milk and eggs – a baker’s [...]

Today was one of those extravagantly warm, sunny days with gentle breezes that are almost entirely unheard of in San Francisco. It’s also unheard of to stay indoors on such days as these, so I took a walk to the nearest “natural” area, Bernal Hill. It offers a great view of the city (you can [...]