MY VINE YARD

“Like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert” cooking otherwise keeps me healthy and on my feet for the time it takes. Picking out vine leaves from a clump of fresh harvest bitter melon greens from the side garden that many to make little when braised, is a matter of kitchen devotion and survival. Frankly...

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AGING HOUSE VINAIGRETTE

 I was typing a poem entitled Typing V on my manual Smith-Corona when this recipe announced itself in my head, not necessarily disrupting creative flow, but perhaps extenuating it (the first verse in the poem had foraged Chinese violets pictured on the ground, and they were edible). Vinaigrette...

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FOOD TALK

 “The key to enjoying cooking is embracing simplicity. Simplicity in cooking is ease and grace.”                                                         ...

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“WILD THINGS”

In one of those Instagram quotes I read in passing I loved what it said: “May we all continue to be blessed by the incredible biodiversity of wild things.” The post was from a forest forager on the island, and it featured tropical plum recipes made into syrup for tart glaze and other preserves and this...

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A DINNER CANDLE

 Dear Universe:Bless these gifts from your bounty these lilacs of yams and anthuriums of tomato cherries.Bless this your bread, we share as companion friends.The pumpkin you sheltered under wondrous leaves on cold stars, thank you.Your ocean crystals made salt, your mystic swamps grew shrubs of...

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