I am currently trapped in a house with a young woman who added “muslin” to our list of essential grocery items. (I am also here with a young man who’s must-have grocery list included barbecue potato chips, and I shop for a woman who sent me an emergency message for root beer). So, we all [...]
We can trace nearly all of human history through grain. I know this, and have discussed it at length, because I am currently isolated with a young baker who was supposed to be headed to Paris next week to attend Boulangerie School. Yesterday, she turned some old dried cranberries and an unused bag of prunes [...]
I open the side door of our house and a waft of good smells greets me -- the yeasty goodness of fresh baked bread, Sunday-dinner richness of balsamic baked chicken, exotic tang of Croatian sausages, sweet goodness of blueberry tarts. Molly B is in the house and, like Beauty and the Beast's Be Our Guest, [...]
Owing to its state slogan "land of 10,000 lakes", I never thought of Minneapolis as a river city. It always seemed like a lake kind of town. But, born, as it was, on both banks of the Mississippi, a river city it is, and I love the history of American river cities, possibly because I [...]
We all jumped out of our chairs yesterday afternoon when Ivan Rakitic nailed the final penalty kick to send Croatia past Denmark in the knock out round of the World Cup yesterday. But, really, only one of us is a super fan. Wearing her lucky dress, with her legs still a little charred from the afternoon [...]
