Cooking in a Bedsitter
I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
Read more“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s 104th Birthday
I felt mulish today. Six months with one meal away from home. No outing further than 30 miles. Seeing friends and family only in constrained circumstances. Enough, enough. Time for…
Read moreThe Gritter Board: Or How to Process Half-Dried Corn
Last week the latest issue of The Millstone: Journal of the Kentucky Old Mill Association arrived in my mail box. It included a reprint of an article by Martin Brooks…
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