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  Travel and food, especially new food have always been intertwined for me. When I embarked on a yoga retreat to Bali I was excited about  eating Indonesian food, though I wasn’t quite sure what that would be. The only Indonesian food I’d heard of was rijstaffel, which is really Dutch. Before the trip, as part of […]

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In 1975 my best friend Richard and I were seventeen, and had great plans for our Christmas vacation. Our college applications all mailed out, we’d been saving money for months, Greyhound was offering an $80.00 ticket to travel anywhere in the USA for 30 days, and we were headed to Mexico City! I can’t believe […]

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Oh end of year, oh Christmas day With all the things I want to say I spent a year of cooking madly Some came out great, some came out badly The seasons come the seasons go Crisp fall, hot summer, and so much snow Last winter seemed to never end It finally did in Spring […]

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My mother was one of the smartest people I’ve ever know, and that’s saying something, because I know some pretty smart people (you know who you are) and I learned a lot from her. Some things I learned because she drilled them into mine and my sibling’s heads on a regular basis, some through observation, […]

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‘Tis the day before Thanksgiving And over the river we go To families, friends, vacation spots And those we love and know We cook and clean and ready the house For loved ones to descend       The cooking just goes on and on Will it never end? I doubt you’re even reading this […]

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