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The Many Delights of Strawberry Season
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. The Wimbledon tennis championships conclude this weekend, and over the past two weeks, strawberries were a focus of fans who dined on dainty sandwiches and…
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Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
Better-tasting food starts with having fresh, nourishing ingredients. A Chinese proverb has the right idea: “The field nourishes the people who live in it.” In other words, they use what’s available in the local village market because it’s fresh and…
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Modernizing Classic 1950s Farm Recipes
On a rainy spring day, I’m musing about some of the recipes that I miss from my wastrel youth, and I’m thinking that some of those out-of-favor dishes deserve a second, modern look. I’m not talking about tuna noodle casserole,…
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Whip Up a Pavlova for a Strawberry Sensation
It’s strawberry season, and for me, that conjures up my favorite strawberry dessert: Strawberry Pavlova, an airy and elegant dessert that is deceptively easy to make. My introduction to Pavlova was happenstance. While living in Cambridge in the late 1970s,…
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Strawberries for Dinner?
Your kitchen is filled with the intoxicating scent of fresh strawberries. You just couldn’t resist picking up a couple of quarts. But you really need to make dinner. What’s a body to do? Here’s an idea that combines fresh strawberries…
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Strawberry Pavlova
A deceptively simple, light, elegant summer dessert
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Salsa Romanoff
From Salsa Cooking