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Do you ever wonder what they eat in heaven? I love the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life. It is set in Judgement City, a place somewhere between life, and wherever you are headed next. The two main characters Julia and Daniel meet there, and though their days are spent literally defending the choices they […]

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While shopping the other day I came across the most lovely eggplants. They were small but not tiny, and perfectly purple and smooth and though they weren’t on my list I decided I must have them! I love eggplants, they have the same earthy robust quality that mushrooms have. If you’re having a vegan or […]

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There is a certain allure to Chinese take-out. Movies and television shows are filled with images of conference and coffee tables littered with open, stained Chinese take-out food containers. The characters sit among a sea of these containers, digging in with chopsticks, and talking with their mouths full. In fact scenes like this pepper so […]

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As March ends so does a month of kale, quinoa and chicken. Some recipes more successful than others, all fun, and I’m glad to be moving on to April, or am I? After this endless, snowy, dreary, cold, really endless, winter, which I seem to have spent 99% of in my kitchen, cooking and eating, […]

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Pollo à la brasa is a Peruvian style of rotisserie chicken that you can get all over Washington, D.C. and New York City, but is not very widely available here in Philadelphia. There are two places I found listed, but they are far from me and fairly inconvenient to get to, and two places not too […]

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