Our Stories
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Since it's Christmas time, I chose to make Anita Chu's Sugar Plums recipe. Anita writes in her ...
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“All that matters is that you jump.”
One of my trapeze instructors whispers this to me as I am ...
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I live in Los Angeles where you can get pretty much anything you want, except for one thing I ...
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I was 'off to see the queen,' the stewardess lingo we use when working a London trip. I packed my ...
Fall
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Although they’re often a favorite side dish staple, sometimes mashed potatoes need a little ...
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Pears ... the other fall fruit. Pears just don't seem to get their due respect, taking a back seat ...
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This past weekend at the BlogHer Conference, I was on a panel entitled, "The Meaning of Identity ...
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Last week I got a shipment of SweeTango apples to try. New varieties of apples appear up now and ...
Our Recipes
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7 oz. package caramels
1/4 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup chopped pecans, divided
1 9-inch ... -
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1/4 cup cilantro leaf
2 scallions, cut into thirds
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 jalapeno, chopped
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Serves 6
Note: This is a vegetarian soup. If you omit the sprinkling of cheese on top, then it's ... -
(A note: there are many, many versions of this dish –some with lemon(?) some with peppers, some ...
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Serves about 8-10
Ingredients:
2 cups heavy cream, divided
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup milk ...
Holiday Issues
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It's not about over-abundance, although it sort of is. I'm not the kind of person who loads their ...
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When I was nine years old, my parents told me it would be fun if I made them breakfast in bed every ...
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Over the holidays my cousin and her husband who live in San Francisco invited me to join them at a ...
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From the International Herald Tribune
Suppose I told you that with your turkey, your stuffing, ...
Restaurant Reviews
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Unless you've been living under a rock you've likely heard of Kogi BBQ, LA's twitterific ...
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There are people who, when on vacation, go wherever the road takes them. I am not one of them. If ...
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Houston, it seems, has as many nicknames as it does oil wells, but the one that touches my Texas ...
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I love the city of Boston. I spent my college years living there and enjoyed myself immensely. My ...
Cookbooks We Love
Our Featured Authors
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I’m obsessed. I want to know everything. I’ve hunted for her favorite recipe for Moose stew. I ...
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My twin brother’s name is Paul Newman and when we were growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1960s, ...
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It's almost the end of summer, which likely means you're sunburned, overtired, and ready for your ...