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December 30, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
Friends were coming for supper last night and my oven shorted out, so I had to get creative. I had to find a dish that could be cooked in a limited number of pots, wouldn't be labor intensive, and . . .
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May 01, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
Eight of My Favorite Foreign Films:
You’ll notice that 3 of them have food or cooking as a major plot line…Surprised?
· Antonia’s . . .
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December 10, 2006 07:14 AM EST --
It's been a few weeks since we returned from the Mediterranean cruise, the winning prize for the 2006 Gather Travel Writing contest. The wonderful folks at Gather scrimped . . .
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October 09, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
The Dutch know how to relax. At the beach in Zanvoort an Zee, the snack trucks are pulled by tractor trailer up and down the beach so you don't have to walk far to get your fried fish and French . . .
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October 08, 2006 03:07 PM EDT --
When Mozart was 11, he played sublime music on this organ at St. Bavo's Church in Utrecht. But how did his feet reach the pedals? Even during a practice session, the sound was mesmerizing . . .
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October 08, 2006 02:59 PM EDT --
Koffie verkeerd, our favorite drink in the Netherlands, translates into upside down coffee--in other words there's more milk and less coffee than usual. (We also liked the cookie that came with every . . .
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October 08, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
I is for Io, our host's cat, that we cared for during our stay.
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October 08, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
Etty Hillesum's diaries written during World War II provide a 24-year-old's view of the German occupation. We visited her hometown of Deventer and the research center devoted to the promulgation . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:51 AM EDT --
E is for energy. They definitely use plug-in power less in the Netherlands. The refrigerator in our host's house was about the size of the one we had in college. Permanent recycling stands were . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
Dutch dogs are a motley lot--some pedigree, some mutts, and some unidentifiable breeds we had never seen before. (The one in the picture appears to be mostly wolf.) Unlike their exuberant . . .
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October 04, 2006 09:09 PM EDT --
C is for Canals. There are hundreds of them. Everywhere you look, you see water, which gives you the odd sensation that you really are walking on water! Combined with a high average rainfall, we quickly . . .
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October 04, 2006 07:56 PM EDT --
The best way to get to know Amsterdam. We climbed on the black utilitarian bikes our hosts left us and zigzagged down the streets. The bikes had no gears and only one had handbrakes. Taking a deep breath, . . .
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October 04, 2006 07:49 PM EDT --
A is for Amsterdam...where we spent 3 terrific weeks this summer on a home exchange with a lovely Dutch-American family. When you swap houses, you stop being a tourist and experience what it's . . .
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June 07, 2006 11:24 AM EDT --
When in Italy, we often avoid the big cities and search instead for old-world . . .
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May 12, 2006 08:27 AM EDT --
Expect the unexpected. This is our mantra when we travel abroad. Lost luggage, misplaced reservations, poor directions, delays at the airport--all are possible, but . . .
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April 16, 2006 01:11 PM EDT --
It happened again. The egg white curse. It's fickle. It's maddening. It can render a perfectly beautiful walnut Passover torte into a smoldering ruin. This year it struck twice, so my hazelnut . . .
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April 10, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
I was having . . .
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April 01, 2006 08:43 PM EST --
My son Alex turned 17 this week, so of course, I had to put on my apron (so to speak) and search my cookbooks for the perfect recipe. He liked the concept of the Zuccotto--a dome of pound cake filled . . .
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March 04, 2006 07:53 PM EST --
I spoke to Sarah the other night on the telephone for over two hours. This isn't remarkable, given that she works for Compaq technical support and our new computer crashed. Sarah wasn't her . . .
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February 25, 2006 01:46 PM EST --
A loving companion,
Elegant, fearless, proud
Eager for a swim, a run, a meal
A bomb sniffer in the British Army
Born on May 1, 1991 in England
Died on February 23, 2006 in New Hampshire
May his spirit . . .
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