Long Live the Recipe Box

Sharing personal stories at the intersection of culinary and family history

A culinary storyteller's collection of family recipes, kitchen discoveries, and the stories that make food memorable.

blending memoir with menu: a foodletter about cooking, family and life on a Maine island

A newsletter for all of us who are crazy about food + curious about the world

"McDermott is one of the greats, as natural at the craft as M.F.K. Fisher, Marion Cunningham and Laurie Colwin." --Wendell Brock, James Beard Award Winning Writer

An honest weekly conversation about life, through the lens of baking and cooking, from the award-winning, best-selling cookbook author.