In an alternate universe, Alison Roman opened a bakery in San Francisco 20 years ago. When the now-famed cookbook author was in her early 20s, she worked as a pastry chef at the Michelin-starred ...

Pantry staples get the spotlight in Alison Roman's kitchen. “This chicken has far too few ingredients to be as complexly flavored as it is, but that is the magic of vinegar, crushed briny olives, ...

The grocery store came first, before the house, the husband, the baby. When the chef and cookbook author Alison Roman closed on the building that would become First Bloom, her debut retail venture, in ...