Megan Hazen

http://www.tastingmenu.com/2011/02/04/eltana-seattle-washington/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+tastingmenu+(tastingmenu.com)

Even if i do disagree with this author's dismissal of New York royalty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all

If you can suffer through Pollan's wordiness, there are some interesting ideas in here. For example, the proposal that cooking is what differentiates humans from other animals, and part of what gives us such complex societal interactions...