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Category Archives: making peace with food

It’s November, and once again I’m participating in another Yeah Write writing challenge. If you’ve been a long-time reader (at least a year) you know that last November I participated in a writing challenge that involved writing a post every single day during the month of November (yes, all the days, even Thanksgiving). There were […]

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I woke on a Monday in April, 1965 on a strange new planet. No one had come to wake me for school, and I’d had a restless night, waking twice, each time going into my parents’ room, and finding the bed made, and no one there. Both times I called downstairs for them, the first […]

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Cooking is the sort of thing that is passed down in families, and rarely takes on anything as formal as cooking lessons. We cook the way our moms (or dads) cooked, and this goes way beyond technique, and a penchant for always using the same pan to roast the turkey. The way we cook has […]

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Some days it’s not a croissant I’m craving, but Chinese pastries. When I first moved to Philadelphia I thought I’d never learn my way around the city, so each morning I’d set out on my bike in a new direction. It was a great way to get to know my new city, and really see […]

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                You can hardly open a magazine, newspaper, turn on the television, or see a Facebook page without seeing something about ‘clean eating’. There is even an online magazine named Clean Eating and they define clean eating as buying food with two or fewer ingredients, along with a list […]

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