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Josie and the Pie, with Diamonds
Every August, the heat here ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape - we flee Kansas by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally sto...
Tell Simmer: Monica Bhide, A Life of Spice
Take a deep breath with me. Ready? Monica Bhide has: written for everyone from The New York Times to Food and Wine to Bon Appetit; published two cookbooks, The Spice is Right (2001) and The Everything Indian Cookbook (2004); written for websites, tau...
To Market, To Market
There are amazing sights at the Lawrence Farmer’s Market, and most all of them start on a farm. But not all of them are edible. There are the bizarre, the brilliant, the barkers, and the simply beautiful. That’s not even counting th...
25 Ways to Make Oatmeal Cookies Even Better
My daughter was headed to a pool party the other night, and I was supposed to send cookies. I opened the pantry door, and from a tall cylindrical box a man wearing a Quaker hat said “Pool party? Thou shalt need oats, of course.” So I mad...
The Two Josephines
Here, from a month ago at the Louvre, are two lucky Josephines. One is lucky because she is a twelve-year old visiting the Louvre. The other, well - she was Empress of France. But she had to sleep with a little madman in epaulets, so…whoR...
