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Middle Eastern Yogurt Bread

August 10, 2015

  Commercial bread is so good here in the Bay Area that nobody needs to bake their own. But after picking up Diana Henry’s A Change Of Appetite, I all but ran into the kitchen. The Irish born Henry lives and works in London, where she’s well-known.  According to her website, before…

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Notes on Canning Tomatoes

August 5, 2015

  The literature of canning abounds in talk of capturing time.  Terms like “peak freshness”, “seasonality”, and “ripeness” are certain to appear whenever people begin musing over the meaning of canning. It’s all true.  To can tomatoes in August is to hope you’ll be opening the jars in February.  To gaze upon…

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