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  • Ann Lemons Pollack: A Well-Seasoned Life

    Never a shrinking violet, Ann moved between many different worlds during her 76 years.

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  • Mac and Cheese Bites

    Now, where was I before the burst of holiday theatre interrrupted me? Oh, yes. Party food. Let me backtrack a little. I loved my mother’s macaroni and cheese when I was a kid. It was the only vegetarian entree ever served at home, long slithery hollow macaroni noodles sliding through what began as a white

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  • Cheese Stars

    Here’s another one of the party recipes. This is from Hoppin’ John’s Lowcountry Cookin’, by John Martin Taylor. Cheese straws are a tradition in Southern entertaining, I’m told, and they go well with wine, beer, cocktails and other beverages. The usual way is to cut out long strips, and I can certainly see a pizza

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  • Not the Same Old Stuffed Celery

    It’s party season! I’m working on a new book, which will be out – I hope – this time next year. So I’m not going out to dine nearly so much, and I’m not going to theater nearly so much as I normally do. But family life goes on, and I recently returned from a

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  • Not Exactly a Recipe….

    Is this a recipe? Sort of. The New York Times food section’s newsletters often talk about no-recipe “recipes”, making suggestions about putting things together and encouraging folks to use their experience, even if it’s limited, and instinct to put together food. (To quote the late Benjamin Spock, MD, “You know more than you think you

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  • A New Feta Dip

    Five years ago or so I wrote about a feta dip – sour cream, feta cjeese, and green onions. This one is better, I think, despite the fact that I went against my own habit and used some leftover feta in the fridge that was not the wonderful Bulgarian stuff, just the remnants of what

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  • Ermas

    A couple of weeks ago, I offered a recipe for cookies called hermits here.And as I talked about in the recipe, I went ahead and tinkered with it. This version is named for my friend Mary's mother, who did a cookie with mincemeat in it. The result is more moist than the hermits, and a more

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  • Bacon Potato Bites

    We’re now getting into the party season and that brings up the frequent question – whether to others or our own internal dialogue – of what should I bring? The sweets are everywhere this time of year, but as much as I like to do pastry-type stuff, sometimes a change of pace is welcome. I

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  • Chocolate Rum Cake

    Every once in a while a dessert comes along that smacks you in the face. Here’s one. It’s a one-layer French-style gateau, not a layer cake, dark, rich chocolate but not oversweet. It’s from Clare Ptak, a Chez Panisse alum who’s now baking in London. The recipe came out of Milk Street Magazine. It results

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  • Thoughts on Visiting Clementine’s Creamery

    National Ice Cream Day was this past Sunday. Wise of them to do it on a Sunday, don’t you think? A Sunday afternoon stroll or drive? Maybe a post-prandial cone in the evening? Americana at its best, one of the universal experiences. Clementine’s Creamery just opened its second location, on DeMun with the green park

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