Yesterday was a big day. On Monday morning, the first finished copies of my new book, Cooking Dirty, rolled off the presses in wherever it is that they print books nowadays. That afternoon, one of the ...

Lev Grossman is my new best friend. Yeah, that Time magazine. And yeah, little ol’ me and my little ol’ book. But it’s actually not just because he wrote about me that I now dig the guy. It’s because ...