100 Mile Garage Sale
Our annual “hundred-mile garage sale” has been postponed from May to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It made me think again how
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April Fool’s Day
Today is April Fool’s Day and I have always wondered how this celebration began—so I set out to discover the origins of Fool’s
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Soup and Bread
Making soup has all sorts of benefits: It’s fun, it uses all sorts of healthy ingredients to “soup” up your immune system and
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Traditional meals
With all the pain and problems that this covid-19 is causing, there are a few good things coming out of it–family togetherness, for
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Food Fashion
A few years ago when I was new to Red Wing, we were invited to a party at one of the beautiful old
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Rainy Days and Sheltering in Place
It looks like the proverbial “rainy day” has arrived with the COVID-19 epidemic. Restaurants are closed, grocery stores are somewhat bare, people are
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Abstract vs. Concrete
It seems like there are two kinds of people: abstract thinkers and concrete thinkers. There is a bit of each of these in
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Soda Bread
“What joyous Feasting winter brings, what benign satisfaction! The senses purr with delight”—James Beard As a cook, I love the winter with its
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St. Patrick’s Day
Okay, first we had Friday the 13th—and then the infamous Ides of March about which Caesar was forewarned for good reason. Worried? Well,
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