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It's so easy to love a pig.  At least from afar - at a personal level, they're a bit too shrewd to be entirely adorable.  They're not like dogs, who will believe anything you tell them.  But if you haven't seen a pig in a while, take a moment to admire their current physique.  The...

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Here's something new for this blog - a recipe I've never actually made.  But my wife makes it all the time, and I've watched her, and eaten it a lot, so that counts.  Plus the ricotta maple mint topping springs from my own special genius, which is to annoy everyone who would prefer something simpler,...

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It's nice to have a little side project when you go on vacation.  Even if you're going somewhere just to relax and absorb light, maybe you'll decide to take a scuba diving lesson.  Or if you're going to Paris, besides seeing the Mona Lisa and climbing the Eiffel Tower, your stretch goal might be to...

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I knew it was a weird idea, because they would never be crisp.  But I had pickled everything else - meats, mushrooms, fish, vegetables.  So why not nuts?  Plus we eat cooked, non-crisp cashews in all kinds of curries.  Plus it's fun to say the words, as in "those are some homemade pickled nuts."  They...

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Spanakopita with all its filo clothes on is a PITA to make, and way too modest in terms of showing off the rich green goods within.  It also has unavoidable, irreplaceable, glistening sheets of delicious, buttery gluten, which my daughter and certain friends cannot eat (sigh). But mostly, it's the filo cycle I want to...

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When people ask what it's like where I live, I tell them it's paradise.  If they look skeptical, I explain that within a ten minute drive I can dig clams, buy fireworks, visit four different breweries, get a tattoo, and buy raw milk from a shed next to the stalls housing the cows who made...

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