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On the way home (two delightful books for kids)

September 29, 2011

Flew from Portland to Portland with no sleep. I paused in Newark in between and saw all my pals from my first pass through—it was Saturday morning again—the 15-year-old Arab-American girl who told me why jobs in the airport are the best around, the nice guy who’d taken my photo with Betty Boop the week [...]

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Recovery Soup

December 28, 2010

Leftover turkey or chicken carcasses, flu or just a bad cold, suffering from holiday excess and needing to rest the old digestive system—whatever your trouble, this soup is the solution. We seem to live on the stuff these days.
Our version, influenced by Martha’s Indonesian-style chicken soup and Popsy’s variations on Martha’s soup, and tweaked over [...]

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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins; story by Eric A. Kimmel, pictures by Trina Schart Hyman (1989)

December 3, 2010

On the third night of Hannukah I propose my favorite Hannukah tale, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. When Hershel of Ostropol’s steps lead him, on the first night of Hannukah, to a small snowy village, he is sure he will be greeted by crisp latkes and the gleam of candles burning in menorahs in a [...]

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Planting garlic. Planting anything…

November 13, 2010

We planted the garlic today. As you can see from the photo, there’s not much to show for it—just some bare ground.
Soon that ground will be frozen and covered with snow. In the spring the soil will emerge, still bare, and slowly green shoots will rise toward the warming sun. After a long time we’ll [...]

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Kale saag—eat your greens, baby

October 26, 2010

An Indian supper (not to be confused with Indian summer) with my cousins this past weekend, and I wondered what I could make with the foods so abundant this time of year: apples, squash, kale, the last of the cherry tomatoes. I read many recipes for saag, the creamy spicy green mush served in Indian [...]

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