If someone asked you the question, Are you a cook or a baker, the answer comes quickly for most. I am and always will be a cook first—I like the tactile process of tweaking along the way, tasting until a dish is just right. For a long time I didn’t think there was a baker… Continue reading Pumpkin Pie
Tag: Thanksgiving
Mini Pumpkin Curry Pies
Sometimes great truths come at the most inauspicious of times. Other times, like a thunderbolt, they strike with all ingredients in place. Last week, we had one of our first real fantastic rainfalls. Usually in San Francisco, the kind of moisture we are used to involves a dripping of the great faucet in the sky… Continue reading Mini Pumpkin Curry Pies
Pumpkin Cream Pie
There is so much to be thankful for. Many kids love the gifts that Christmas brings, but from a young age, I found myself enchanted with Thanksgiving. It quickly became my favorite holiday. This might have had something to do with the food. It might have had something to do with family. It might have… Continue reading Pumpkin Cream Pie
Giving Thanks & an Elegy by Yehuda Amichai
Many people give up on poetry. They think it does not have anything to say to them after high school English class. Perhaps, they think, it is for a certain social tier or for people who have time. I’m not sure of the why, but one of the when’s of their return to poetry can… Continue reading Giving Thanks & an Elegy by Yehuda Amichai