Comfort Food, Easy-Style

Here we go, as promised. I served this Chowder to a friend who came for a very casual, easy dinner over the holidays. To accompany it, I made fresh bread from this ever-so-easy and so…

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The Power of Ink

Paris has been so much part of my life over the course of this blog, and it means so much to me, that I need to register my heartbreak at today’s events there. I took…

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A Slight Delay . . . with Compensation . . .

Yes, yes, I did promise a Simple, Delicious Seafood Chowder recipe, but my goodness, it’s busy starting up a new term. That post is still coming soon (do you have a fennel bulb? You’ll need…

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Moving into the Year

Tomorrow I meet the first of my new classes, and I’m almost ready to put this winter break behind me and take up the rhythm of the year again. We’ve had a quiet few days…

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2014 Reading

I scarcely posted at all this year, and there’s no point apologizing for that. I did book-Tweet a fair bit when I was reading Jeannette Winterson’s and Quentin Crisp’s memoirs, and I thought about recovering…

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