JAMMING

     I will be jamming red-green kiwi and passion fruit together using all their natural pectin and acidity to preserve it, and with only a touch of raw turbinado cane sugar to taste after they've boiled through and set. The final color in the jar looks already devilishly delicious to...

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“AWAKENING”

 “There were times when it appeared to [him] that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions.”           (Oscar Wilde) The...

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A TOAST

 "Wine" from a neighbor-grown tree of blood oranges its peak now and sold honor system at his fruit stand in front; and tea-soaked butterfly pea flowers floating in the apéritif from a food-grower friend next block over with delicious edible bouquets on his Sundays market. The celebration: a memorial...

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“DOOYMAAJ SALAD”

 I discovered Niu Life Kitchen a few weeks ago walking downhill on Main Street. It’s a vegan sandwich shop baking on premises spelt focaccia bread (their specialty)and making brilliant fillings of bio-life food like tempeh katsu with moringa pesto, coconut teriyaki glazed with nori sauce, and loaded...

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