Father’s Day grilling around my house was always fraught with tension. My dad was not the genial Fred MacMurray type. He paced irritably, chain-smoking, beside the Weber grill in the backyard of our cottage in Madison, Conn., with a kitchen timer in hand.
Woe be the designated griller (me) who was not standing at attention, grill tongs...
Stumped for menu possibilities for Father’s Day, June 17?
Consider these recipes from Esquire’s “Eat Like a Man: The Only Cookbook a Man Will Ever Need” and “Man with a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families.”
The first book is a witty and beautifully photographed collection of 100-plus recipes from some...
Perhaps you’re stuck on what to buy dear old dad for Father’s Day; tired of the neckties, bugged by the coffee mugs and bored by the billions of books fawning over fatherhood. In the spirit of marching to the beat of our own drummer (just the way dad taught us), we’re offering up some less obvious — and way more adventurous — things that say “...
Father’s Day is a funny holiday, and I mean that in the “peculiar” sense of the word.
Whereas Mother’s Day finds Mom being feted with breakfast in bed or whisked off to a favorite restaurant for a fancy meal, Dad’s big day very often has him cooking his own celebratory dinner.
But happily so.
Father’s Day -- which this year...
Fathers are special for a variety of reasons. Some are the strong and silent type, while others greet you with bear hugs at every chance. Some dads are the ones who will play endless games of catch in the backyard, while others prefer to show their affection while teaching you to master parallel parking.
Whether the dad(s)...
