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the Art of Cooking
Tea leaves, herbs, and flowers bloom in hot water, transforming in the glass pot. A rustic cornmeal cake, warm out of the oven, sits on the counter—scenting the room with fresh thyme and Meyer lemons. …
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Hoe cakes. Griddle cakes. Hot cakes. Call them what you will. Rich with buttermilk & bacon grease, this recipe from Garden & Gun magazine is pretty much everything I’d want in a savory …
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Today was my first real day of fall. I brought two spectral pumpkins home to the porch, a petite ivory one & a stately albeit pockmarked blue-gray one, and then I made this cake: a cornmeal & …
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This is an ode to good days, good weeks, an homage to honest to God mornings. To coffee and pastries. Sunny breakfast nooks, the works. These are to inspire you to enjoy life one day at a time, and to …
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I made this buttermilk pie on the television today, on a local show, Channel 3’s “3 Plus You”. Or sort of pretended to make it for illustrative purposes with a lovely one I baked the night before …
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My grandmother’s cornbread was a crisp golden brown. It was cast iron. It was a mason jar of bacon grease kept in the cupboard and a jug of buttermilk in the door of the Frigidaire. It was “home again …
