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Preserving Is Always In Season
Putting up zesty pickles as summer winds down, followed by chutney as crisp apples and walnuts arrived with autumn’s brisk chill. This was once as routine as dusting and other housekeeping. For days,...
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A Canning Cookbook With New Methods & Alluring Recipes
There is no better way to extend the seasons and evoke memories, real or wished for, than home canning. If cruising through Canning For A New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors For The Modern Pantry,...
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Gathering Greens, Collecting Eggs On A Winter Sunday
Sunday was frigid but the pigs and chickens did not mind the cold, even in their barely heated quarters at Stone Barns Center, a beacon for the sustainable locavore movement in Pocantico Hills, 30...
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Grapefruit Cocktail Features Cocktail Grapefruit
With cocktails back in fashion—the alcoholic kind—I am also in favor of reviving fruit cocktail. Particularly now, when cocktail grapefruit can be included. Uniquely sweet and lavishly juicy, cocktail...
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Chocolate Treats That Are Just Right
Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers by Debby Maugans is a chocoholic’s perfect enabler when you crave a brownie or two or you need a chocolate fix. Building on her earlier book, Small-Batch Baking,...
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Honey, I Have A Cold
Colds and flu are in season. Having recovered from the bug, now I am comforting two friends who have it. One has declared that honey is better than chicken soup. Thinking this is heresy, I decided to...
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From Tokyo, the Earthquake, Its Aftermath, and How To Help
My friend Elizabeth Andoh, who grew up in New York City, has lived in Japan since in the 1960s. In her own words, this is how she experienced the earthquake. plus information for how to help.[Perhaps...
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Easter Eggs, Colored Naturally
I colored these eggs using wild blueberries, grape juice, onions, ground chili, and turmeric. Dying eggs using fruits, vegetables, and spices is ecologically friendly and entertaining. The process is...
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Unofficial Cookbook Shares Harry Potter’s Favorite Dishes
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz is perfect company until the lines at movie theaters vanish for Harry Potter The Deathy Hallows – Part 2 opening this week. I did stand in line to...
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Red Carpet Popcorn Meatloaf
On Hollywood’s big night, watching the parade of glammed-up, jewel-bedecked ladies and monkey-suited men while munching unadorned popcorn will not do…think what Joan and Melissa would say! Cacao nibs...
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