Our Stories
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I was a lucky little girl. My neighborhood friends were envious when my mom invited me to be in ...
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These just scream Christmas, don't they? I wanted to show you this recipe to give you plenty of ...
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Here we go again.
This is where Magical Thinking meets Enlightened Acceptance.
Here are some ...
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I read “Look Homeward, Angel” by Thomas Wolfe the summer I worked as a busboy in a Catskill Hotel. ...
Fall
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With all the beautiful apples available for picking and baking, it's hard to not indulge in some ...
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I can't make pancakes. Nope. Just can't. Other than my fleeting victory with Nigella's ricotta ...
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I had a vegetable drawer filled with fuji apples that had seen better days. They were not fit to ...
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We make a lot of fuss over heirloom peach varieties that date back to the 1960s and tomatoes that ...
Our Recipes
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16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
4 cups confectioners' sugar
16 ounces cream cheese, cut ... -
1¾ cups flour
1½ cups sugar
1½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1¼ cups beets, cooked and ... -
4 eggs, separated
2 lbs Golden Delicious apples, peeled and sliced (about 6 apples)
juice of 1 small ... -
1 pound sweet cherries, pitted
2 plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoon brandy
1/2 cup ... -
1 lb fresh asparagus spears, trimmed of tough ends
1 cup roughly chopped basil
1/2 cup buttermilk
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Mom has never baked much but she will make this pie several times a year, especially in the Fall ...
Holiday Issues
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Spending countless hours trapped in a cold, dimly lit basement -- that's what I remember about ...
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“…Among the leaves so green… love and joy come to you,
and to you your wassail too,
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One of my best memories, one that is worth much more to me than money in the bank, is of Christmas ...
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"It's not that Easter is really about excess, because it isn't. But we always think it's a lot of ...
Restaurant Reviews
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That’s a loaded statement so let me describe the dish before we go any further. It’s a pot of clam ...
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Underground dinners. Do you know about them? Probably. I'm new to this: paprika still confuses ...
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I've always had a strange relationship with The Wedge. I see it on the menu, I want it, I plan to ...
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We're not really "Food TV" watchers since most of the shows make me hungry and feel inadequate as a ...
Cookbooks We Love
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Like many home cooks, I'm always looking for new recipes and cookbooks that will elevate the ...
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Our Featured Authors
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I wish I could tell you exactly how many yards it was for me to get to Roxbury Park to give you the ...
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This is like an April Fool’s Day joke; a BBQ joint write up by a vegetarian! There is a method to ...
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My husband’s last name is Einbinder. We’ve always assumed the German translation (one binder) ...