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There are two things I want to share today. The first is that I love Domenica Marchetti and her Roasted Strawberry Cornmeal Cake. And, better yet, I’ve made it a few times without dairy and it works out wonderfully. If…
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I know Christmas is just weeks away (can you believe it?) but the holiday spirit hit me early last summer. In June, Southern Living magazine asked me to create a bunch of new homemade edible gifts with gift wrap ideas for…
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Walking around a boisterous tiny Vermont downtown is the sort of indulgence I only allow myself very early on in the summer season or very late, after all the leaf peepers have left for more fiery leaves further south. I am a big…
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Too many spots. It was an unspoken rule. When the bananas had too many spots they were turned into banana bread. No matter the kitchen – my mother’s, my aunt’s, my grandmother’s – the bananas were, without question, carefully separated…
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Over the last month or two, I’ve shared my new cookbook with some of my friends and colleagues. So many of them have helped me in various ways–either by being so confident in who they are, by showing me what…
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I’ve been big all my life. I was chubby as a big-little kid. I was plump and overly developed as a teen. And through my twenties and thirties, I was definitely obese. As if being big all my life wasn’t…
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“Work is love made visible.” For months now, I’ve been chewing on this phrase by 19th century Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran. My academic brain wants to pick it apart, but my regular self—the mother, the recipe tester, the one who…
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This time last year, I was most certainly not baking – not a single cookie nor bar nor brownie. I was knee deep in operating a pop-up department store for food. And since pop-ups are the past and a permanent…
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Instagram is such a wonderful tool for sharing your life and food stories with others. We love it. And we love posting on it. But, let’s be honest, styling and taking the right photo to post can have its challenges. This…
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Even when your host assures you and reassures you and then assures you some more that you definitely don’t need to bring anything to Thanksgiving Dinner, you should still bring something. Most people go with flowers, maybe a bottle of…
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