Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the — what? Oh, the sun’s out. The weather isn’t all that bad after all. Well, never mind that – it’s still holiday season and nothing says holidays better than a festive, steaming mug of hot cocoa.* This must be why National Hot Cocoa Day (Dec 13) sits [...]

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Last month, I was carrying on about cookbooks and specifically about a round up of 25 Beautiful Old Cookbooks on Abebooks and for a while I was all about cookbooks “of a certain age” (and subsequently spent some considerable time looking at vintage community cookbooks – community cookbooks being among some of my favorites since [...]

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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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I have been told that I make a damned good cup of coffee. I attribute this less to an actual skill (the coffee maker does most of the work) and more to the coffee I buy (Sinful Delight from Fresh Direct – which may or may not be the same as Sinful Delight from Irving [...]

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Things are going greener. By which, I do not mean painting the kitchen green. You may of course choose to do that. It isn’t a color I would necessarily pick but to each their decorative own. No, I mean embracing the ‘eco’ of it all. This doesn’t mean you have to replace all your working [...]

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