Horseradish has been used for thousands of years, and it belongs to the same family as mustard and wasabi, which is exactly why all three share that same nose-clearing bite. It shows up beside prime rib and seafood, but it also has a real, if often skipped, home-food-s… Read more
That bag of flaxseeds in the back of the pantry has probably been there longer than you think, and whether it is still worth using depends almost entirely on one thing: whether it is whole or ground. Flax has a reputation as a nearly indestructible health food, but the… Read more
That bar of chocolate pushed to the back of the pantry, the one that’s developed a dusty white coating, looks like it’s spoiled, similar to how a jar of molasses can look worse than it actually is. It almost certainly isn’t spoiled. Chocolate is one of the more shelf-… Read more
Fall is arguably the best season to visit Maryland’s Eastern Shore: oyster season opens October 1, tens of thousands of migrating waterfowl and bald eagles arrive at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, and the region’s three biggest annual festivals (OysterFest, the M… Read more
Every home has its own smell. Some of it is pleasant: fresh laundry, a good meal, morning coffee. But underneath the everyday rhythms of a lived-in house, odors accumulate in ways that are easy to ignore. Pet smells, cooking odors, basement mustiness, and bathroom stal… Read more