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Olive Tree Day
Plus wise words from Marcella (“You can only make sense about cooking if you write as a cook"), a holiday salad, and a celebrated whole-orange cake:
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OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS. . .
Some thoughts on Thanksgiving and a star performance
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GIVING THANKS FOR VEGETABLES
Every year at this time I feel obliged to admit that Thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday and never has been. Even as a child, I thought the…
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More on olive oil. . . fresh olio nuovo
On the kitchen porch we’re happily tasting the fresh, new extra-virgin olive oil that arrived this week direct from Cortona. The trees in our oliveto…
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Olives & Oil, Guns & People
New Olive Oil Last week was a rough one in Maine, tempered only by the news from Tuscany of another bountiful olive harvest on our mini-farm in the…
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October 2023
Extra: More fried olives
olive fritte
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Notes from All Over, China to the Med & back again
Red wine, fresh squid, fried olives, and a worthy prize
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‘TIS THE SEASON: OLIVES & OIL
and some useful kitchen tricks
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Apples: History, Tradition, Delight
I planted two apple trees outside the door of a house I once owned in Somerville, Massachusetts. The house sat almost at the top of Prospect Hill, where…
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Murder in the Kitchen (apologies to Alice B. Toklas)
Plus an apple-nut cake of ancient Maine tradition
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September 2023
BEANS
Plus recipes from Maine and Tuscany
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The Long Goodbye
Of tomatoes & food history & preserving the harvest
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