Sara CagleMay 6, 20206 minRecipes from my quarantine cooking challengeIf 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...
Sara CagleMar 19, 20207 minHow the coronavirus lockdown has changed the way I cook, plus my favorite #quarantinecuisine recipesI would’ve thought that suddenly finding myself living through an earth-altering pandemic would change my priorities. Maybe I’d ponder...
Sara CagleJan 15, 20205 minMy arms hurt! Pasta, squid, and yet another surge of respect for restaurant cooksIt 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...
Sara CagleJan 4, 20208 minWhat I cooked in December, in all of its holiday gaiety and lack thereofThree weeks ago, I finished my first semester of culinary school. It was a whirlwind six months of chopping, cleaning, and standing over...
Sara CagleDec 31, 20198 minMy favorite culinary techniques from Cooking Light and Molecular CuisineI 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...
Sara CagleOct 28, 20197 minTurning over a new leaf in November — plus some recipesOctober 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...
Sara CagleOct 2, 201910 minWhat 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...
Sara CagleAug 8, 201911 minTradition of Italian Food 1: Takeaways and recipes from my second culinary courseBefore I knew I was going to Italy or even considering culinary school — and when I wasn't following recipes from my favorite sites like...
Sara CagleJul 16, 201913 minOfficially three weeks into my journey as a culinary studentOn the first day of my first culinary class, Introduction to Professional Cooking, I put on my chef get-up for the first time, laughing...