Isn’t it funny how something mundane or uneventful can trigger a memory so vivid it’s like you’ve traveled back in time? At the mention of Hawaiian shaved ice, I’m immediately transported to the first time…
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Ingredients: 1.5 cups of lima beans (if dried, follow directions for cooking before starting this recipe…or just use them from a can) 10 fresh sage leaves (more or less if you’d like) ¼ tsp of…
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When it comes to hosting a dinner party, I come from my mother’s “more is more” school of entertaining. I feel like true generosity is giving people the option of feeling stuffed and sick to…
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Ten years ago I used to be one of several assistants to a Hollywood film producer who was always on the go. If he wasn’t at the studio or on the set of one of…
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I was walking through the bulk section of the Andy’s Market up on Gravenstein Highway in Sebastopol the other day. We were on our way back from Guerneville, where we’d just been house hunting with…
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Believe it or not, I remember my bris. I know I was less than a week old when it happened, but it seems strange that any man would forget the day a complete stranger comes…
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