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Covid Cooking Part IV: Succotash!!
After what seemed a really long wait, fresh Jersey corn finally showed up in the farmer's market around the third week in July. We being...
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The Jersey Shore, Revisited
My mother, foreground, with her sister Barbara behind at the Jersey Shore. My sister Bonnie is in the foreground with foot raised; first...
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Covid Cooking Part III, Weird Ingredients
Remember back several months ago, in the beginning of this pandemic when venturing to the grocery store was truly terrifying? And in...
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Covid Cooking II: Trust Your Instincts!
Before it was interrupted by the Pandemic, I was taking a really fun cooking course at a place called Cookspace in Brooklyn. Run by a...
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Covid Cooking
New York, hotspot of the Corona virus pandemic, dense, vibrant, complicated city that I love. Now reduced to a shadow of itself, facing...
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'Tis the Season for Festivals, Pink Apples and Hunting Wild Boar
In addition to the abundance of the harvest, the fall season in rural Italy is a harbinger of many vaguely pagan festivals and...