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CONNECTING THE DOTS

Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:38 | Print E-mail
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Mark Twain complained constantly about the food as he traveled through Europe in 1879.   To him, even the coffee and tea didn’t taste right.  Twain was homesick for a tasty raccoon like those he ate in Missouri; for the fried sheep-head and croakers he ate in New Orleans as a Mississippi riverboat captain; for the big trout he caught in Lake Tahoe.  At one point, Twain wrote down a menu of all the foods he wanted to eat immediately upon returning home.   If held, this private dinner would have included 80 dishes!

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POMEGRANATE POWER

Thursday, 05 January 2012 19:57 | Print E-mail
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I held my breath as the young man began to dismantle a bowl of pomegranates one by one.   He was our house guest – I couldn’t tell him to take this impending mess into the backyard.  It was  twenty degrees outside!

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THE LAST GIFT ON THE LIST

Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:06 | Print E-mail

Acranberriess Christmas nears, my my spotted and worn list of holiday food gifts gets shorter and shorter.   Just to be sure, ‘I’m checking it twice’.  Let’s see ... three bags of Lentil Soup Mix - check; six bags of ‘Rise and Shine’ Granola - check; ingredients for Bûche de Noël, buckwheat blinis, venison stew - check, check, check. Everything on the list has been completed.  

I should be feeling prepared.  But I’m not.

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MORE NEWS FROM MY HOLIDAY KITCHEN

Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:38 | Print E-mail
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I look from my kitchen at the bird traffic outside my sunny east window.  The luncheon crowd at the feeder is dominated by our resident cardinal and his dusky mate.  Self-service is messy, and seeds  scatter on the deck where the squirrels are waiting.   Back on task I realize that I’m assembling the same seeds the birds are eating for a holiday granola treat.  Seems we all need seed fuel in cold weather.

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NEWS FROM MY HOLIDAY KITCHEN

Thursday, 08 December 2011 21:35 | Print E-mail
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How does an American cooking teacher get invited to appear on public television in France?  In my case, this unusual opportunity arrived in the form of an email from Chicago’s Alliance Francaise.  Two video artists from TV5 would be in Chicago  over the Thanksgiving weekend.   Did the Alliance know of anyone willing to prepare this uniquely American holiday meal for a French audience?

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