Molasses Time
Molasses time. That’s what I’m calling this moment post-confinment. Or as the French say, “déconfinement”. Someday someone will explain to the world in a precise and scientific way how Covid-19…
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Molasses Time
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Summer Time and the Grilling is Easy
It's high time, past time, good time to grill your summer meals, as many of you already have. Here, we are as tomatoes begin to hang juicy on the…
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Summer Time and the Grilling is Easy
Pizza!
Pizza became the most common confinement food, I discovered in an unofficial poll. In my former one kilometer of freedom I counted 25 restaurants offering pizza for take-away. Makes sense. …
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Pizza!
Marie's Quiche
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French Confinement Cuisine
Oh my, where is the time going? This virus doesn’t just provoke horror, it eats time. Never in my life have I had so much time, never have I felt…
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French Confinement Cuisine
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Easter Lamb
What an Easter season. Yesterday as I walked during my allowable hour outside, I saw signs hung at windows with the word Hosanna and the drawing of a frond.…
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Easter Lamb
Hope and A Strawberry Parfait
Gael Giraud, renowned economist and director of research at the prestigious National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) flatly stated, “We’re seeing food rationing in London and potential rationing in New…
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Hope and A Strawberry Parfait
Caramelized Oranges – Guaranteed Cheer
You will read many, many, many accounts of how this virus is affecting everyone, how to spend your time now that you are - or soon will be - sequestered…
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Caramelized Oranges – Guaranteed Cheer
Local Artichokes, Or Are They?
Eating seasonally and locally is part of my religion. Almost to absurdity, or so my friends and family will point out. But I’m committed, for many reasons. I want small…
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Local Artichokes, Or Are They?
Just decant the wine, and serve
Wine in a Box
As I wiped a tiny drop from the plastic spigot sticking out of the box of wine I’d just opened, I had to laugh. I, the keeper of wine…
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Wine in a Box