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  • In Sickness and In Health 0

    Crumbs

    I’m prone to guilt, coming as it does in crumbs and great big slices. Or sometimes as the entire pie. I feel it right now as Steven and ...

    On October 10, 2020 / By
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    Losing Taste Amid Coronavirus

    In my big Italian family, cooking together is a chaotic, noisy, raucous production. We bump into each other, fight over the accompanying playlist, and bicker over the best ...

    On September 20, 2020 / By
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    Molasses Meanderings

    A few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, I was craving molasses. Like many others, I sure had time to bake. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates started it. When his narrator ...

    On September 3, 2020 / By
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    Appetite

    My husband Will told me that he once stood at the kitchen sink to eat a pig’s foot. He had followed a recipe from his favorite cookbook, simmering ...

    On August 9, 2020 / By
  • Poetry 0

    Appliances

    On Tuesday the latch knob hurtles off the toaster, startles me, small silver bullet of the morning. On Wednesday, pressing down the lever, I flinch and take a ...

    On August 1, 2020 / By
  • Ideas 0

    Pandemics and Pasta: Sustenance in the Viral Age

    Tonight, I am roasting ripe Heirloom tomatoes with onions, garlic, and olive oil in a 400-degree-oven while a blend of mushrooms, garlic, and white wine bubbles in a ...

    On July 21, 2020 / By
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    Baking for the Masses

    “Bakers, welcome back to another round of Baking for the Masses!” The host beamed at the contestants, gaze sliding just above the level of the TV camera trained ...

    On July 12, 2020 / By
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    Butter

    Long ago, when I was a child, when my grandmother was a good deal younger than I am now, I loved watching her make butter. The uncles, young ...

    On June 9, 2020 / By
  • Essay & Memoir 0

    Kinship

    On the evening of Valentine’s Day, 2019, Marisa, Arianna and I gathered at Kinship where Marisa worked as a hostess. She had just left a film production job ...

    On May 19, 2020 / By
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    My Last Brisket

    Although born and raised Jewish, I have never made a good brisket. Today as I hopped around in the swimming pool with my fellow sexagenarians to the strains ...

    On April 7, 2020 / By
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    Father’s French Fries

    As a child in Cuba I couldn’t stop eating my father’s French fries. Once I caught a glimpse of him in our small kitchen, skimmer in hand, eyes ...

    On April 6, 2018 / By
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    Granite

    Joyce Leblanc is standing at the central island of her kitchen, regretting her choice of white granite over the composite the contractor recommended. Smack in the middle a ...

    On April 6, 2018 / By