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Hack #6: Quarantine Comfort Food surviving stay-in-place quarantine with grilled cheese like you’ve never eaten it before
We All Need the Eggs how to build an Easter Egg Tree and create community anywhere in the world
Ode to My Paris Kitchen a favorite kitchen and a haven for uncertain times
My Brief Stint With the CIA fact/fantasy & a life lesson
Finally, The Best Salad Dressing Ever tweak of famous NYC resto recipe
Guest Room Under the Porch summer in Colorado with a uninvited young buck in residence
Will Our Children Know & Care About D-Day? guest author reflects on meaning behind June 6, 1944
Wait Twenty Minutes Then Add Salt secrets of homemade pizza dough from an Italian mama
People Who Pull the Magic Out of You the kind of friends to stick with
My Favorite Kind of Teenager two great-nieces & a memorable day in NYC
Million Mile Stories there is at least one dangerous landing when you fly a million miles, but try not to lose your child
Becoming a Casual Animal KC craft brewery with creative beginnings
Home is Where You Are, Even Overseas Singapore in the late 1980’s & jungle treasure hunting
Leaving Paris and Hemingway repatriating & remembering Hem’s haunts
Cow Seduction French buttah!
Care About Cast Iron why you should care & how to
The Grown-up Table art of the dinner party demystified
Garlic and Girlfriends go great together
Scottish Highland Liquid Sunshine peppered with quotes for whisky lovers
The Hard Boiled Egg make a perfect one
Love and Layers of Lasagne cross cultural love creates a new recipe
French-splaining American Thanksgiving vintage French explanation of Thanksgiving, plus a reboot on dressing–one with taste
Bugling Elk and Sacred Spaces Colorado mountain home where family, friends and elk run through it
Max and the Beanstalks Dilly beans in a jar & a master home gardener
Sunshine on the Back of Your Knees maybe a cure for jet lag?
Treize-A Baker’s Dozen, Paris delicious food, ambience, & a place to hang out where they know your name
Relishing the Radish salt, butter, & radishes the French way
Cocoa Cake With My Curry, Please American renaissance woman speaks Hindi, cooks curry, saves geckos, & bakes delish chocolate cake
Making Perfect Rice using your index finger!
Sex in a Pan not literally
Begin With Russian Dumplings Russian New Year traditions in Latvia with the dual culture family
The Train from Paris to Avignon a train ride, the pope’s palace & baked camembert
Winning–At What Cost? op-ed 2016 prez election
Gare de Lyon and Le Train Bleu m.f.k. fisher lore & iconic decor in Paris train station resto
Shrooming in Latvia annual forest fête & tailgate lunch in the palm of your hand
Summer Sangria booze & berries in a glass
Babies and Rice So Very Nice grandmother hormones & feeding new parents
Spoons and Cookies wooden spoon beauty & the best choc chip oatie recipe in the world
Foxglove & Oreos on the Camino hiking to “the end of the world” in Spain
Bags of Laughter are recyclable shopping bags funny? in this case, very
Living Both Sides of the French Coin French bureaucracy tries to ruin the day but loses
Rocky’s Meadow Mountain Cafe tribute to Rocky St. John & her legacy cafe in Allenspark, Colorado
Looking Back to the Present 2015 Paris Terrorist attack aftermath in Strasbourg’s Xmas market
Simply Sally simply a great cook & friend in Paris
Champagne: “Tasting the Stars” Dom Perignon history, Champagne, & France–what’s not to love?
Porte de Vanvres Flea Market, Paris a ritual return after summer holidays
Letting Go in Latvia pagan wedding tradition intersects modern day international marriage
Secret Eating an eating desire all by yourself is about more than the food
The Baba au Rhum Affair love of a dessert becomes obsession & break up
Transcendent Picnics perfect picnic & food epiphany on a hillside in Taiwan
Mussel Memory mussels in brussels & hot street waffles from a truck
Comfort Food for Cal my oldest cousin eats jello and I do not–to each our own comfort food
A Mountain Gem for 70 Years Meadow Mountain Cafe, Allenspark, CO
Egg Sandwiches mountain breakfast tradition meets the philosophical
Kindle Some Candlelight candle etiquette how-to
Taiwan Green Marble Pesto some food is better after spilling on the floor
Hellenic Halloumi Cypriot halloumi cheese & forever memories
My Market Street everyone in Paris has a “poste de observation”, their café to watch and be watched
An Egg in the Coffeepot Swedish egg coffee in an enamel pot and the sweet history of a man who made and drank it everyday
Sipping Avocado Margs summertime ritual in Colorado, only at Ed’s Cantina
You Say Jam, Nico Says Confiture young French boy exemplifies gourmand pleasures with jam & bread
Two Non Cooks Saved by the Brazilians Brazil humiliated by World Cup defeat, but wins first with fool-proof recipe
The Memorable Not-So-Great Birthday never fast on a birthday, just eat cake
Fabio Meets Brownies Cocaine “5 Minutes of Peace” repaid with brownies extraordinaire, no cocaine involved
The Unexpected in Normandy 70th Anniversary D-Day in France has extraordinary payback
Libby’s Lessons in Lauzerte boot camp in luxurious French mansion
Leeks: Boring to Sublime French women diet on mushy leeks but there is a better way to eat them
