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Flour Power Class at Hotel Providence

Flour Power Class at Hotel Providence

I hope that you can join me for a cooking class at Hotel Providence in Providence, RI on Saturday, November 12, from 9am-4pm, for a day of transformation: flour to bread, flour to pasta, and flour to pastry. Focaccia, a staple of Italy’s Ligurian cuisine, is one of the most simple, yet flavorful breads forContinue Reading

See You Saturday at Earthfest – in the Whole Foods Market Live Tent

See You Saturday at Earthfest – in the Whole Foods Market Live Tent

This Saturday, May 17th, I’ll be joining a whole gaggle of great people: chefs, gardening experts, and philanthropists in the Whole Foods Market Live Tent at Radio 92.9’s Earthfest on the Esplanade in Boston. Starting at 11am and running through 4pm, the aforementioned gaggle will be doing cooking demonstrations, DIY gardening and composting demonstrations, and talking aboutContinue Reading

Just Me

Just Me

“I don’t know about you, but I think of fall as a new beginning,” JR said one evening last week as we sat in the garden. “Yeah, me too,” I exclaimed, surprised as much that we shared this philosophy as I was that after six years of marriage, and nearly twenty years of our livesContinue Reading

Garden of Plenty

Garden of Plenty

We planted the asparagus patch during the spring of 2008. “I won’t be able to eat those for three years,” JR would just about shout, exaggerating the claim slightly as is his way, and pointing to the wispy, yet sparse fronds, 21 plants packed together in one raised bed. “But it will be worth it,”Continue Reading

Roasted Salmon with Peanut Sauce + a Cookbooks and Calphalon giveaway

Roasted Salmon with Peanut Sauce + a Cookbooks and Calphalon giveaway

My friend, Colleen from Souffle Bombay, was recently thinking about which cookbook first made her fall in love with cooking, which led her to ask the same question of a number of her foodie friends – myself included – and #CookbooksandCalphalon was born. We have 17 food bloggers’ stories to share, recipes included (but of course),Continue Reading