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My beloved few
I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a … Continue...
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Arsenic what?
This is homemade Chocolate Almond Butter. It does not contain organic brown rice syrup. You know, that ingredient found in granola bars and crackers and baby formula, and other things that obviously...
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Home (salted maple pecan granola)
I have loved each of my “home towns” in turn. From the duck ponds in Golden Gate Park (all I seem to remember from my early childhood in San Francisco), to the tumbling wabi sabi rose gardens of...
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Once you start
I have always been a morning person. But I have never been a get-out-of-bed person. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort to make that move from inside our wonderfully soft, warm sheets to outside...
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Eating your corn and whey
When you make ricotta, you have something left over called whey. This is purportedly good for baking, and I promised you I’d give it a try one of these days. We have been making a fair amount of...
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The stuff of legends
Childhood is where we we learn the myths that on some level will be with us for the rest of our lives. We find our heroes, our monsters, our magical friends. We discover the ancient stories of our...
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Tummy time
I can remember my mom telling me how, when she was pregnant with me, she would ride the bus into downtown San Francisco for work. For the entire first trimester, she would bring a plastic bag with her,...
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Our daily bread
(Tangential? Perhaps. Important? Yes. So here is a heartfelt goodbye to MCA – and some Beastie tracks that Brian assures us are not on YouTube … ) Our first CSA box is coming tomorrow. My guys have...
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Before and again
When Kyle and I first moved in together, we went from dating long distance, seeing each other on vacations and long weekends and always in a place that clearly belonged to one or the other of us, to...
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A bit of a cheat
Sometimes when I find that I can’t work through the words in my head, that I’m stretching to sift them onto a page, I put away my pen. A walk helps. But often I turn to someone else’s work. It’s …...
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