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friday feast: fly soup and apple brownies
Please help yourself to a cup of tea and an apple brownie (spiders and centipedes optional). On this crisp and clear Halloween Eve, we’re serving up a tasty poem by London-based author Elli Woollard. I...
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a fond farewell to downton abbey
“All this unbridled joy has given me quite an appetite.” ~ Violet The soufflés are sinking, the puddings are pouting, the meringues have taken to incessant weeping. I fear much of our “unbridled joy”...
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[review, recipe, giveaway!] Miss Muffet, or What Came After by Marilyn Singer...
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away. Well, no. Not exactly. There’s more to this story than...
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[review, recipe, nonsense] Junket is Nice by Dorothy Kunhardt
And now, from the department of strange children’s books you can’t help but love, here is Junket is Nice by Dorothy Kunhardt (New York Review Books, 2013). Yes, that Dorothy Kunhardt — of Pat the...
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a trio of fall favorites: cats, corpse, crisp
‘Tis the season of apples, pumpkins, black cats and twisted tales, so we’re getting our Fall on this week with a three course meal of old favorites. I suppose one could say this post is equal parts...
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[review + recipe] A Grandfather’s Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey by...
“It is important to have a child spend time in the kitchen — the most secure, comfortable, loving place in the house. The smell of food cooking, your mother’s or father’s voice, the clang of the...
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♥️ a trio of sweet treats for valentine’s day ♥️
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” ~ George Bernard Shaw Have you ever noticed how many terms of endearment are related to food? Just call me Honey, Babycakes, Sugar, Pumpkin, Cookie,...
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a tasty bite of “Pomology” by Kim Roberts
Have you ever received a cryptic message, only to spend the next few minutes trying to figure out what it actually means? D.C. area poet Kim Roberts received a text from her housemate that inspired...
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[review + recipes] V&A Introduces: Beatrix Potter by Katie Woolley and Ginnie...
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you. Mine took me here. Where I belong.” ~ Beatrix Potter Spring is Beatrix Potter time....
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