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Well, I promised I’d be making more videos now that school’s over, and here’s the first of many more to come.  Check out the fancy details: We’ve got music and text effects!  I’m getting pretty good at this iMovie thing.  … Continue reading

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This recipe is adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, Baking with Julia.  (That would be the one and only Julia Child, of course.)  I created my own version of the recipe by making what should have been a colossal … Continue reading

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In Northern California, we have blackberries.  Lots of them.  They grow with reckless abandon along fence lines and at the edges of school playgrounds.  They ramble over ledges and down hillsides, their thorny vines twirling around anything that stands in … Continue reading

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I live in the hills just east of San Francisco, where blackberries grow wild. When I run in my neighborhood early in the morning, it’s too dark to see the ripened berries, but I can smell them. Their aroma hangs … Continue reading

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It’s alarming how many recipes there are out there for something as simple as pie crust. Some involve complicated ratios of different types of flour, some involve food processors, and still others rely on–I’m not kidding–artisan butter. Let me save … Continue reading

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