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I went to Europe for the first time in 1997. I was 18, coming off of a failed attempt at college and several months of double shifts in San Francisco restaurants trying to make enough money for a plane ticket. I carried around with me a haze of too much pot smoking, the weight of too many ...

I'm going to say right off the bat here that I've got a recipe for you. It seems I've lost some of you here and on social media with all these march photos, and if you're on the brink of going that way, that's okay--it's your choice to make, whatever your reasons. But if a recipe is what you're here ...

Every year right around this time, I write about cookbooks again. That post becomes one of so many shouting around the internet about THE BEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING, and yet, here I am again, thinking about books for gifting. But today I'm thinking about why we give cookbooks in the first place. ...

I went to my first march when I was 10 or 11, a big NOW wave through the streets of Boston, flanked on either side by my mother and grandmother. It ended in a grand church where some important speaker got up and spoke about the power of choice, but, distractible as I was, I spent the whole time ...

Let's just pick up right here. Or rather, back then. The summer I was sixteen, I lived in my aunt and uncle's basement in San Francisco. They lived in a purple victorian in the Richmond District. The basement room belonged to my cousin Colette, a painter maybe 8 years older than me who also had a ...

Oh you blink and then the summer is gone! The manuscript is done (at least for now), and you've barely swum in the river but you did manage a few glasses of pink wine in the backyard here and there and one of your children just might have nearly inched taller than you. And then you drove halfway ...

Hey hey! Can we talk about next weekend for a moment? I'm teaching a class next Saturday (that's August 6) at Stonewall Kitchens in York, Maine, and I just got word that there are spaces left. So how about it? How about Maine next weekend? ...

So far this summer, I've made strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, blackberry, blackberry raspberry nectarine, and blueberry. I'm dragging my feet big time in the kitchen when it comes to recipe testing for this new book, but I swear I'd make a pie every single day if I had the berries to fill them. It ...

Happy July. I'm guessing that you might want to be more off your computer than on these days, so I won't keep you long. It's summer around here, which means that everything changes and the house gets very messy. I'm down one kid at camp (the Unitarian anarchist sort), and I'll have her back in ...

After all these years, we still love little yogurts. It's a little dishonest maybe, or at least evidence of my claim that I'm no militant. Because while I've repeated the origin story of my current career over and over for years now, my grocery cart still might hold the unexpected. ...

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the interior revolution, and a recipe for good luck

why we give books (and a giveaway)

run straight towards it

colette’s library

fried shishito peppers

go to maine

how to make a pie

the state of summer

coconut yogurt

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