Food – Words of War

January 2, 2018January 2, 2018

A Settling Sea – Family Vol. 5

I am grateful every day to have been born into a nautical family. Continue reading “A Settling Sea – Family Vol. 5”

July 23, 2017December 7, 2020

So Deutsch wie mein Großvater

ccw & roses germany — My brother in Germany.

For the English, scroll down.
Für die Englisch, nach unten scrollen.
Special thanks to Steffi Smarsly for translation assistance.

Als ich 8 war, lebte ich im Norden Deutschland, im Schatten von Hamburg – eine der Wohnungen meiner Vorfahren. Mein Zuhause wurde dann Deutsch. Meine Schule war Deutsch. Mein Essen war Deutsch. Meine Freunde waren Deutsche. Ich war Deutsch. Continue reading “So Deutsch wie mein Großvater”

January 25, 2017August 23, 2019

A Woman & the Vegetable – Family Vol. 2

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Read up a bit on Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist of the 19^th century, and you may run across this: “The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.” Continue reading “A Woman & the Vegetable – Family Vol. 2”

July 6, 2016March 24, 2020

Blueberries for John

The pond, from which the home was named Pond House. Looking toward the Elizabeths.

“Once at least in the life of every human,” MFK Fisher writes in Serve it Forth, “whether he be brute or trembling daffodil, comes a moment of complete gastronomic satisfaction.”

You can find mine under “Maine Blueberry Pudding” on Page 344 of the Tenth Edition of The Fannie Merritt Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook. Continue reading “Blueberries for John”