A REFLECTION OF THE TIMES

 I've been writing this food blog more than ten years now beginning in Bushwick, Brooklyn, I was fresh off grad school at that time and was hungry both viscerally and culinarily after several years abroad for a teaching scholarship (S. Korea and the Philippines), and I was ready to come home to...

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KALE MICROGREENS AND KIWI BERRIES

 "It was during these long trips that she began writing a great deal again. The landscape, the strange life stimulated her. It was then that she began to love the valley of the Rhone, the landscape that of all landscapes means the most to her. We are still here in Bilignin in the valley of the...

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“HERE COMES THE SUN”

     Beattles was playing on the drive back from Haiku on Hana Rd., and the melody was so upbeat along a Maui backdrop. I have no recipe in mind today, just food thoughts swirling around my head— but eating isn’t always the intention. Some of the best life memories come after! Bourdain,...

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GREEN DIP AND MUSHROOMS IN TOMATO CONFIT

Photo by C.G., ca. 2016     Mana Foods yesterday had an organic yellow corn tortilla chips (large bag) on sale stacked in a wired basket along the cheese aisle, and I grabbed one. But I was disappointed when I got home after I made a “guac” (of avos, lima beans, fresh-cut cilantro and...

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