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I have heard of truffles, both black and white, and truffle oils, but I wasn’t prepared for the joy of finding truffle salt! I love all kinds of food stores, from tiny specialty tea or cheese shops to the supermarkets and grocery stores I visit whenever I travel. I love their weird and delicious smells, […]

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Ideally, eating is a social event, but many of us end up cooking for one. For me, meals are better shared with someone, and savored with conversation and companionship. Many of my meals however are eaten in solitude. I have friends who are happy to eat a bowl of cereal or ice cream for dinner […]

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Cooking and teaching someone to cook are vastly different. Both take a certain amount of patience, but teaching requires a very different level of attention. When my daughter was eight I asked her if she wanted to start learning to cook. She was excited, we got a kids cookbook, and I let her choose what she […]

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The words “all you can eat” inspire both joy and horror in me! All you can eat can be a slippery slope, because if I am not paying attention, I can and will eat way too much. I recall a joke my father used to tell about two bubbies at a resort in the Catskills; […]

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I love it, and as of today, I declare, no more fighting with food! For as far back as I can recall (and that’s a really long time) I have been fascinated with it. As a four-year-old, I would pry open four Oreo Cookies, take a slice of American Cheese, folded into quarters, and put […]

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