We All Have Roots We Love

My grandmother was an avid cook although not necessarily a good one.  She grew up in an oppressed area where she learned to eat things pulled hastily from the ground, sometimes without lighting a fire to mellow them, and then consumed on the run. As a result, she didn’t bake well in spite of entertaining [...]

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Summers Cloudy Bounty

After a summer that never happened, I expected our garden to be a disaster this year.  With cloudy skies obscuring the sun day after day, certainly those vegetables would lack flavor, refuse to thrive or turn to mulch after too long. What a surprise it was when those raised beds yielded plenty of greens, vegetables [...]

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