“Get” Cooking and “Get Cooking!”

This site began as a play on words. On the one hand, it is a place for hundreds of articles on food, wine, and cooking that I’ve written over the past 40 years, so that you can “get” cooking (as in “Get it?”).

On the other hand, the site as a whole is also exhortatory. I encourage all of us to “Get cooking!” (as in “Let’s!): to cook for our family & friends (even for ourselves) as a way to focus the mind, slow the pace of the day, and see the beauty of the material world.

So, I’d invite you to scour the site for the words to help you both to “get” cooking, as well as to “Get cooking!”

From this home page—look to the middle left—you can use the search function to comb through many dozens of recipes; read about many of the ingredients that go into them; pick up basic skills, hacks, and tips; and watch videos that I’ve done that cover all these topics and more. Just type in a cooking or food or ingredient word, hit “return” and you’re off.

I am particularly fond of the history of foods and have an entire section devoted just to that. Plus, the Wine section is as complete a guidebook to the world of wine as I think you could find anywhere in any medium.

An eighth section answers your questions, so keep them coming. Here’s a recent one that asked me to recommend wines that are particularly flexible for a range of different foods.