Category Archives: making peace with food Holidays are when families gather, some enthusiastically, some reluctantly, and in each beats the heart of the holiday. And by heart I don’t mean the sweet, Valentine heart, but the core. Holidays, and in particular family gatherings are much more than the ritual gathering of people who know each other too well. We literally and figuratively bring […]  Right from the start I will state I don’t like runny eggs. Runny eggs, however are taking over the world, so I think I may need to learn to like them. Half the food pictures I see when I scroll through Instagram are dishes of all manner topped with runny eggs, some poached, some fried, […]  Now that January is here, almost everyone we know is starting their annual diet. I cannot even count the number of diets I’ve started, some a complete and total failure almost immediately, some more manageable. Even thin people seem to think, worry and even obsess about their weight. And so for many people new year= […]  The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight hours. It doesn’t feel like it, but starting today the days will be getting longer for the next six months until the summer solstice. As far back as I can recall I’ve been interested in the four days of the year that mark the change […]  The top of my Settlement Cookbook is imprinted with the phrase “The way to a man’s heart…” The full quote is ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ and is an old English proverb. I’m not sure how it happened, but all evidence to the contrary I stubbornly cling to this notion. […] |
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