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BuonaPasqua~Mangia!
Easter is another excuse to eat well. While some spend the holiday doing good works, we at home try to do good food. Our family tradition was lasagna with tiny meat balls. I used veal scaloppine...
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MadCap
Betty is back. So is the show. She’s lookin’ good again, and Don falls for her during a nostalgic night at Bobby’s summer camp. But, Betty has learned that Don punishes women who love him. She smartly...
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SummerEve
Celebrating 31, at Blue Heron in Sunderland. Porchside diner à deux on a sultry eve of the summer solstice. Sweet clams, tuna tower tartare with fresh snowpeas and pickled cukes from nearby gardens....
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Mystery of BlueHill
Mid-summer night’s dinner. Blue Hill. Greenwich Village. Famous. Barack and Michelle. Justin and Jennifer. Locavore award. James Beard winner. Farm to table. Garden gustations. Alas. No vegetables to...
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SundaySummer
No. We’re not ziplining, beaching in Quogue, road tripping to St. Louis, or trotting off with Obama to MV. We are enjoying interactive summer arts. Indulging in gardens’ glory in gorgeous weather....
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StuffingtonPost Time
It’s that time again. Turkey Day and Hanukkah together this year. Brisket with stuffings and turnip?! Here are some of our annual recipes for the season. Strahl Brisket Autumn Candy Twice Cooked...
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HotMix
It’s all Kennedys all the time this week. Caroline’s starting her ambassador stint in Japan as the country remembers 50 years later back home. Her spokesman here is hunk son Jack Schlossberg. Those...
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BonAppétit 2013
The year has yielded mostly 3-star fare around our ‘hood. The Farm Table in Bernardston is fine for lunch outdoors or at the bar. Risotto and wine list worth the trip. Lord Jeffrey Inn’s renovation in...
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FroZen
Slip sliding out there. Keeping it Spring inside. Wrestling Risotto. RecipeDetours. Bon weekend.
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Summer Bouillabaise
As bombs and missiles explode, Wednesday Florence farmer’s market fills the heart with much-needed comfort. So lucky that freshest ingredients still exist in these parts. Mark Bittman points out in...
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Recovered Scraps
Parts Unknown this season resurrects America’s wasted past. Vietnamese food is ubiquitous in our local boîtes. Don’t give it much thought. Yet, Bourdain’s recent tour was hard to watch. Reminded how...
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Cuban Sandwich Picadillo
It’s the Cubano Dos and El Trumpo now. Rubio. Cruz. The Cuban crusts. Tricky Ted’s dirty tactics and Nixonian sneer harken back to the Bebe Rebozo corruption days. Marco el Rubio, not really. He’s not...
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Iron Art
Beautiful iron work makes artful fences and good neighbors. In Quests de Cuisine, recent NYC restaurant scene~ our “Picks & Pans”. Gotta get out and away from the political fray. Old friends &...
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City Farmers Markets
Although it’s always great to get out to the Long Island farms for colorful late summer treats, we have our own weekly farmers markets just up or down the street. Greenmarkets on Sundays behind...
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Post stuffing-palooza. I still like Thanksgiving in Katonah and as advertised the cuzins remain smart, sweet, kind and funny as heck. They are all special people despite their crazy parents. Alicat and...
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Soixante
Everything sounds better in French. Mais oui, it’s official. Lobsters. Champagne. Cristal Saint-Louis, 1586. Merci mes chers amis. Ocean House, allons-y.
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Happy Birthday bro’ Joe. Personification of loyalty and class. Sports maven with sass. Next rhyme too obvious. Trousers tailor heir. 3 sons’ Dad beyond compare. On a cool sunny September Sunday, it’s...
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Woman Accused Of Throwing Cupcakes At Husband Charged With Domestic Battery
Hmmm. CupCaked. Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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Should have kept our Apple stock. Dr.Husband got his iPad3. Between that and Siri, I’m a couple manzanas short. An apple a day keeps… you get the point. Congrats to GemQueen on being honored at the...
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Side Treks
Back roads thoughts. Hipster branding. Logo re-treads.Can you have a funeral for a house? Do dwellings have souls? Next door neighbors moved to Boston yesterday. Home is empty after five now-grown kids...
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