The time has come for another in my (regrettably very) occasional series of posts about interesting and unusual soups. And this time, I’m featuring a soup that is not at all, and yet exactly what its name implies. And it’s another globe-trotter. Until very recently, I had always believed that Mulligatawny was a soup of [...]

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There are so many ways to approach the topic of food and everyone does so in their own way. So I decided that to do justice to this most personal of subjects, I needed additional voices to chime in. Result? A series of fabulous foodie guest posters. To kick off this new feature, Maribeth tackles [...]

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Yesterday was National Deviled Eggs Day in the US, and as a devotee of canapes of any sort, I can think of no finer finger food to be nationally commemorated. I’ve already posted my recipe for deviled eggs so won’t repeat it here, but I would like to take a moment or two to speak [...]

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Some months back, I made vague promises to myself of researching Bird’s Nest Soup. Since, of late, I have also been advocating soup as a method of achieving weight loss whilst also not spending money I figured it was finally time to fulfill said promises and go look it up. It turns out that Bird’s [...]

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As the indomitable Martha Stewart once declaimed, “There are no problems, just opportunities for excellence!” Now I have of late been in somewhat penurious circumstances, and must admit that I did, in fact, consider that a large problem indeed. Then it finally occurred to me that now would be the perfect time to shed that [...]

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