Rachel Turiel

Creamy Swiss Chard Dip

This is a cooked dip, and a great way to use up the acres of chard you receive weekly from your friendly CSA without it actually tasting like you’re eating a me...

Eat this. Don’t eat that.

Rachel Turiel

Photos by Bonni Pacheco In the late 1990s, I spent many summer nights in the backcountry listening to a camp stove sputter its particular acoustics of whoo...

Stop Buying and Start Making: Vanilla Extract

Rachel Turiel

Perhaps we all remember our squat-limbed younger selves balanced on a stool, uncapping a bottle of our mother’s vanilla extract. Inhaling the mysterious and int...

Modern-Day Artemis, Part II

Rachel Turiel

There are realities about standing over an animal, newly dead, that I am not prepared for. First, to call that bull elk, slumped and emptied of breath...

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Modern-Day Artemis

Rachel Turiel

By Rachel Turiel This idea blossomed much like many wayward marital brainchildren: my husband cajoled; I laughed and blew him off. The cajoling continued for...

The Gravity of Our Own Kitchens

Rachel Turiel

It happens like this. My family and I are innocently eating something produced and packaged by others – mayonnaise, marshmallows, pricey squares of toasted wasa...