“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s 104th Birthday

“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…

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The Gritter Board: Or How to Process Half-Dried Corn

The 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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Our Daily Bread: A Meditation by Predrag Matvejević

Our Daily Bread: A Meditation by Predrag Matvejević

The end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943 saw one of the harshest winters of the century. In norther Germany, near Osnabrück, my father [a Russian speaker from the…

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