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New Life For An Old Pressure Canner

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Carol

My mother’s pressure canner was such a fixture of my childhood that I just had to salvage it from the storage shed on our Tennessee farm. In its time it helped us preserve years’ and years’ worth of gardens and … Continue reading →

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A Taste of Autumn and of a Place

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Carol

  While most people anticipate turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and all the rest when the year’s end rolls around, my favorite autumn food is those maple sugar candies shaped like maple leaves that you find in New England … Continue reading →

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The Delights of Orphaned Glassware

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Carol

I love scoping out mismatched glasses in thrift stores. It’s fun rummaging through and looking for odd pieces that have their own, unknown histories of lives I never knew. I always wonder how they got there, whether they were impulse … Continue reading →

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Eating With Your Eyes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Carol

When I was in culinary school and turning out food that tasted good but just looked okay, I held that I was more concerned with the taste of the final product than with presentation. But culinary wisdom is right: We … Continue reading →

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Bacon-Laced Booze Bliss

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Carol

Ever since my pal, Chuck (he’s about to officially acquire the hyphenated name Chuck-of-Gumbo-Pages-Fame) introduced me to bacon-infused bourbon, I’ve been itching to give it a try. I’m not much of a bourbon drinker, but he recently made me an … Continue reading →

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