Wine – Nancy Taylor Robson

Christmas Cake Recipe for the Seasonally Depressed

This recipe isn’t mine; it was emailed to me by a friend and didn’t include attribution for the author. But while the creator won’t get credit, it will strike a lot of people as a good recipe to follow this time of year. Christmas Cake Recipe 2 cups flour 1 stick butter 1 cup ofContinue reading “Christmas Cake Recipe for the Seasonally Depressed”

Vinoteca, Wine and Food in the Half-Frozen North (Creek)

I don’t remember exactly when I first read Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone, but I think I was in my very early twenties (if that). The volume, a paperback with a worn cover and thin pages that had the musty smell particular to old books, had belonged to my mother and she had faint memories ofContinue reading “Vinoteca, Wine and Food in the Half-Frozen North (Creek)”