Fig Jam
I planted my fig tree about seven years ago, to replace an ancient apple tree which was the "apple of my eye". She (or he?) was such a lovely part…
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Fig Jam
Bergamots
A Special Marmalade From a Special Fruit – The Bergamot
The temperatures have turned wintery here in northern France. I'm between Louviers and Paris, between my wonderful house and my teeny apartment and while I feel the cold, both are…
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A Special Marmalade From a Special Fruit – The Bergamot
Halved oranges and lemons
Orange Marmalade
Winter is the season of oranges and I don’t think they’ve ever been better. Their juice is like sweet liquid sun, giving energy from the second it begins its slide…
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Orange Marmalade
Cod in salt with bay leaves for flavor
Salt Cod Goes Uptown
Salt cod. It's not your every day ingredient, I know. But you can find it in most fish markets, often in neat little wood boxes labeled "Salt Cod - Skinless…
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Salt Cod Goes Uptown
Eight Minute Salmon
I eat salmon very occasionally because I'm a salmon snob. Anyone from the Pacific Northwest is because to us, our wild Pacific salmon is mother’s milk, the essence of…
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Eight Minute Salmon
Optimism and Lemon Meringue Pie
Since the election I’ve been searching for optimism. I’ve found some. There is optimism in people gathering round. At the market yesterday, it was a flurry of friendship as people…
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Optimism and Lemon Meringue Pie
VOTE
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! And then go home and make some....quince paste!
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VOTE
Pasta with Lemon and Parsley
Long ago in Tuscany, lemons hung heavy from the trees, parsley sprouted up from the ground green and meaty, and pines nuts blanketed the ground The olive trees that cover…
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Pasta with Lemon and Parsley
Et voila! A dinner of perfectly roasted,perfectly presented chicken
Roast Chicken Antidote
Back from California to a gorgeous, cold, sunny Parisian day then Boom! Awash with rain. So, I'm doing what any sane person would, and filling the house with the glorious…
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Roast Chicken Antidote
A Fig Year
Oh, ye faithless. I was considering uprooting my fig tree because it has only eked out a handful of tiny figs during it's five year life when, Eureka! It redeemed itself in…
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A Fig Year