cooking | Sara Cagle

Recipes from my quarantine cooking challenge

If you are my mom, my friend, my mom's friend, or someone who likes pictures of pasta, you may have participated in my quarantine cooking...

How the coronavirus lockdown has changed the way I cook, plus my favorite #quarantinecuisine recipes

I would’ve thought that suddenly finding myself living through an earth-altering pandemic would change my priorities. Maybe I’d ponder...

My arms hurt! Pasta, squid, and yet another surge of respect for restaurant cooks

It seems that all of my cooking tasks this week were designed to work my muscles — not just my culinary mind and physical posture, but my...

What I cooked in December, in all of its holiday gaiety and lack thereof

Three weeks ago, I finished my first semester of culinary school. It was a whirlwind six months of chopping, cleaning, and standing over...

My favorite culinary techniques from Cooking Light and Molecular Cuisine

I had some doubts about the two classes I'd be taking at the end of my fall semester in culinary school. First, there would be Cooking...

Turning over a new leaf in November — plus some recipes

October was not my month. After a week of eating everything in sight in Sicily, I returned to school at the beginning of the month to...

What it's like to work in a restaurant kitchen for the first time ever

I was so unsure of myself the first few days of working in a restaurant kitchen that I might as well have never cooked anything before in...

Tradition of Italian Food 1: Takeaways and recipes from my second culinary course

Before I knew I was going to Italy or even considering culinary school — and when I wasn't following recipes from my favorite sites like...

Officially three weeks into my journey as a culinary student

On the first day of my first culinary class, Introduction to Professional Cooking, I put on my chef get-up for the first time, laughing...

SARA CAGLE