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Summer apple adventures
This year, it’s been my pleasure to serve on the Washington Humanities Speakers Bureau. I’ve been traveling around the state talking about my book The Washington Apple, now available in paperback! If you’re…
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French Women Don’t Get Fat?
It’s the time of year for resolutions and a host of diet advertisements and articles to accompany them, which makes it the perfect time to review The Low Calorie French Cookbook by Marguerite…
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Pancakes and Camping
Labor day has come and gone, but fall is still a great time for camping. A few weeks ago we stayed at a Forest Service cabin in the mountains. While we did not…
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Huckleberry Season
Not to brag, but here in the Northwest, we have an abundance of fresh fruit. From June through October, we are blessed with strawberries, raspberries, cherries, apricots, peaches, blackberries, pears, and apples. So…
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The Hundred Dollar Dinner
“Can one man eat a hundred dollars’ worth of food at one meal without making a pig of himself?” M.W. Mount – New York Tribune, 1908 That’s the question journalist M.W. Mount poses…
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Living on a Little
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article title “To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast.” Cue the internet outrage. The article was behind a paywall, but from what I could…
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Peter Pan Peanut Butter
When I was a kid, creamy Peter Pan was our peanut butter of choice. So when I found this booklet at a second-hand bookstore, I was excited. Like many school children of my…
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Sucaryl
Happy Halloween! On a day when children are going to be loaded with sugar, I thought it would be fun to take a trip into the spooky world of sugar substitutes. Many sugar…
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The Washington Apple
Found these on my doorstep when I got home from work last night. It’s real! Now available from University of Oklahoma Press or your favorite online bookseller.
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Orange Jooj
I was researching a post on peanut butter (coming soon!) when I came across this ad. Of course I had to find out more. Soda fountains were very popular in the nineteenth century,…
