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Food

Another Perfect Cooking Day…

27.01.2012

I love to buy food seasonally because it makes whatever is in season feel like it’s a treat. I found blood oranges at the market today. For some reason they taste like cranberries sweetened with orange juice to me. I adore them. And though I eat them out of hand, I also love to use [...]

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Mmm, Mmm, Soup…

28.12.2011

The other thing I love about winter (besides getting to knit more) is cooking. I hate standing over the stove in the summer. But come the cooler weather I get my cooking mojo back. Today is the perfect day for soup. There’s a cold wind, dark clouds, and the threat of some kind of precipitation—though [...]

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The Great Danbury State Fair

14.10.2011

It was a long, untroubled day. There is nothing like it. So wrote E. B. White in The New Yorker on October 18th, 1930. He was writing about visiting the Danbury State Fair. I suppose most people who have State Fairs feel the same way about theirs as we felt about ours. Starting when I [...]

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Comfort Reading

08.09.2011

I’m a huge fan of comfort food. There’s nothing in the world that a good dish of hot, creamy mac and cheese can’t fix. Just saying. Some people find comfort from settling in and watching old movies. Sometimes, though, it can be a book that lets you downshift and exhale. I’m reading one of those [...]

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