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New New Year’s Brunch Traditions
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. For my New Year’s Day brunch, I will be enjoying toasted…
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Cheery Christmas Cookies
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. It’s Christmas, time to celebrate the season of giving. And what…
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Tips for Holiday Road Tripping with Dishes to Share
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. Are you joining family or friends for a holiday dinner? If…
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Long-Life Noodles for Health and Good Fortune
In this part of the world, when it gets dark early and holiday celebrating is pretty much done, we all could use a little levity and good luck as the new year begins. In fact, civilizations all over the world…
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The Many Traditions of Midwinter Feasts
During my lifetime, this has always been the season for the ultimate feast. When I was growing up, we met at my grandmother’s house for a huge family meal with ham and turkey or goose, side dishes of vegetables and…
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Emulating Indigenous People in Giving Thanks
We’re about to partake in Thanksgiving, an annual event that typically involves a traditional collection of relatives and people you know together with a turkey, a lot of food, and occasional overeating. For some, it’s not Thanksgiving without a communal…
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The Rites of Spring, Mesopotamian Style
Spring in our part of New England is sort of springing. Two steps forward, one step back; from cool to warm and back again. Flowers are sprouting up, the promise of warmth is growing, the days are longer, and we’re…
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Making Stock of the Christmas Feast
Holiday feasts are the gifts that keep on giving – and I don’t mean the leftovers. You can do great things with the bones from your roast, whatever than might be, and the vegetables that didn’t get used. Yes, I’m…
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Scandinavian Christmas Traditions
In mid-December Scandinavia, it’s dark – just six hours of light each day. The sun rises in Oslo at around 9:20 a.m. and sets at about 3:15 in the afternoon. Winter is setting in now, and the locals are happy…
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Just a Small Group This Year? Deck the Halls Anyway!
For many of us, this holiday season could be the “small-idays” – smaller get-togethers. I’ve heard from any number of friends who plan to keep their festivities intimate, just with two or four for Christmas dinner. One couple is planning…