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Stories from the Road
Travel dispatches, restaurant reviews, chef interviews, cookbook deep dives, and the occasional detour into true crime and history.
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A Castle in the Hills of a Historic Family Vineyard
In the small historic village of Oberkich in the Black Forest region of Southwest Germany, the Renner family has been making wine since the 1930s.…
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Old Fashioned Fairs and Food
I love going to food festivals and state and county fairs and seeing what great home cooks both young and adult are doing. One such…
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Celebrating the Season of Peaches in Southwest Michigan
I owe a big thank you to Nancy Perry, chairperson for the 2018 Coloma Glad Peach Festival who sent in the winning recipes from the…
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South Bend’s Magnificent Tippecanoe Place
Built in 1889, Tippecanoe Place, a fine dining restaurant in South Bend is an elaborately gabled and turreted 24,000-square-foot Richardsonian Romanesque-style house which belonged to…
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The Mermaid Handbook: An Alluring Treasury of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects
Life is busy for a lovely mermaid (and aren’t they all?). There’s riding seahorses through shimmering sea foam capped with frothy white waves, finding…
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A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry and Literary Far
Book combines poetry, prose and food Chef Myra Kornfeld and poet Stephen Massimilla have put together a luscious cookbook illustrating how poetry, prose and food…
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Bridgeton Mill: Grinding Away for Almost Two Centuries
The wheels of Bridgeton Mill, a three story building next to a 268-foot covered bridge, both painted a matching red and rising above a large…
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2018 Symphony League Garden Tour
Brilliant displays of flowers, vignettes of garden arts, a cast iron bed frame painted white and cozy sitting nooks, a pond, a memorial to a…
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FIBEGA, THE PREMIER WORLDWIDE GASTRONOMY TOURISM FAIR, COMES TO MIAMI MAY 2019
FIBEGA, the premier worldwide gastronomy tourism fair, will take place in the states for the first time in May 2019 at the Miami Beach Convention…
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Fabio’s 30-Minute Italian
“Good cooking and a lot of flavor don’t have to take a lot of time,” says Fabio Viviani, chef, restauranteur and TV personality, explaining why…
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Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health & Happiness
Stressed out during her last term of graduate school when she was counseling clients 30 hours a week, Ashley Melillo returned to her love of…
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King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World
For her book King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2017; $35), Joan Nathan, the…
