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the Art of Cooking
Tis the season for holiday table inspiration! Thanksgiving is about three things: sustenance, mindful gratitude, and family. It’s stories and flavors and all the ways in which they overlap. When …
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I went to the market in Venice yesterday, gathered winter citrus & fresh eggs—the sun, the eye, some strange warmth in the dead of winter—and walked back to my friend Skye’s family home through …
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I’ve just returned from a trip up to Charleston, South Carolina (more about that in an impending wander guide), and I’m finally ready to get into the swing of the holidays. I’ve been very resolved to …
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The truth. The truth is I’m, despite my best efforts to slow down & recapture a lost way of doing thing, wildly, inextricably modern in so many ways. I drive my car to run banal errands daily. I …
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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Sometimes I get this resplendent feeling. It starts in the pit of my stomach. I can feel it pressing against my ribs and radiating out of my finger tips. A coniferous forest rises up around me. It’s …
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