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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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Searching for Schweinshaxe: From Heidelberg to Michigan
My search for started back in 2012 when Frank Buesing of Stevensville, after returning from a trip to Bavaria, wrote asking if I…
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Hot Chicken Takeover: Good Food & Second Chances
Hot Chicken Takeover hadn’t opened yet and already the line on the second floor in North Market, Columbus Ohio’s super food emporium was about a…
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Silver & Tequila in the Sierra Madres: The Tale of San Sebastian de Oeste
High in the Sierra Madres, we follow the twisting road from Puerto Vallarta and the seaside on our way to San Sebastian de Oeste. Crossing…
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Ann Arbor vibe: Where social consciousness meets creativity
There’s a definite vibe in Ann Arbor — one where social consciousness and creativity converge. And so I mapped out interesting places in the eclectic…
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Alabama, Grand Central, Grand Central Life & Style, Regional & Ethnic, Southern cuisine, UncategorizedCrazy Sista Cooking: Cuisine & Conversation with Lucy Anne Buffet
When my daughter was in high school, I drove her and a friend down to Gulf Shores, Alabama for spring break. While we were there,…
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Book events, Chicagoland Area, Chroncile Books, Cooking demonstrations, Read It and Eat, UncategorizedThe Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles
The author, an avid collector of vintage recipe booklets, shares some of her finds–updating them with modern twists.
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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…
