Welcome to my website. That's me, Mark Scarbrough, on a ferry to Newfoundland, one of my favorite places on earth.
To be more honest, welcome to our website. Because what you'll find here are recipes, tasting notes, and bits of Bruce's and my lives as partners and a team of two food writers, cookbook authors, and all-around gourmands. But since I'm the writer and he's the chef, the words fall off my fingers and onto the keyboard--thus, the "I" on this site is, well, me, the one on the ferry.
And about that title, Real Food Has Curves: I have a good friend in Austin whose mantra has always been "real is good." She means it about relationships, self-image, and life's important things--but I feel it holds true for food, too. And real food definitely has curves: voluptuous eggplants, curvy shrimp, mashed potatoes.
When you first come to this site, you see the main food blog, running on the left of the page (where these words are now appearing). The main food blog has got recipes and cooking techniques set down into fuller narratives: how we tested what we tested, why we ate it, what we thought about it. 
About that food blog: all the recipes are ours, many of them original to the site, some adapted from our books. Bruce and I have been in the business for about 12 years now--longer, if you count the fact that he went to chef school in the early '80s (before going off to a career in advertising) and that I wrote some of the original food and travel content for AOL back in the mid-90s (after giving up a career in academia). So we've got tons of ideas, tons of recipes, and are always up for trying something new. Bruce never makes the same recipe twice.
Back on the site, there are two columns immediately to the right of the main food blog. The first is a short-hand guide to all the stuff on this blog--as well as links to our favorite food sites and some other things, like a form to allow you to contact me directly. In the cooking box, by the way, you'll notice that there's a link to both the food blog and to an index of all the blog posts, first alphabetically and then chronologically.
If you ever want to know where you are on the site, check out that column. You're wherever the link is darkened to a burnt orange hue.
The second column at the far right of the page is dedicated to a complete list of our books, with links to buy them on amazon.
As I said, our career is a tandem one: Bruce cooks and I write. But I have told Bruce he should feel free to chip in his nickel. He comes in for some good ribbing, so all's fair in love and blog-commenting, as they say.
I hope you'll spend some time, drop a comment or two, come back, and see what's new. We're glad you found us.