This weekend, Rosie sat me down and recited her holiday list. Sadie, always eavesdropping and ready to jump in, popped her head around the corner. “Oh, you want to hear mine?” I can tell they’ve been rehearsing for the moment. The lists change from year to year, but they always have this crazy range of…
roasted beet and apple pie
There is no doubt in my mind that politics brings out the worst in people. I could give you the list of who and what I’ll be voting for tomorrow. Trust me, I’m tempted! I want to tell you why I make the decisions I do, why I feel that those are the best choices…
the first time we are together (and a giveaway)
The first time I cooked for Joey, I cooked for him what I would cook for myself alone. (The food of my picky childhood, the quick nutrition that my mother had made for me over and over.) It would have been some day in that fall of 2001, in one of those moments when the…
basic tomato salsa
A little ways back, Theresa Loe drew my attention to piece I hadn’t seen before, an article for Slate entitled Can It: At-Home Preservation is Ridiculously Trendy. Food writer Sarah Dickerman talks about the “drudgery” of canning and the fervor of tattooed hipsters when it comes to those home-filled jars. And, like Theresa, there was…
coconut loaf
This week, my grandmother Shirley would have been 86. I can never remember her actual birthday, and so I give her the whole week, and, like some Pagan goddess, she presides over this always charged and wild time of the end of August, the end of summer, and the beginning of new routined life, whatever…
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