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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Cosmos

Saturday, October 10, 2009

I still have a little lake of cosmos flowers beside my driveway. They just won’t quit. The bumblebees are working them hard. The perennials I planted in the spring didn’t do much this year. But the cosmos, an annual, went wild. Next year, I will plant even more.

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Gourmet magazine, R.I.P.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

My mother’s mother’s biscuit pan, now a working heirloom It is strange that, at a time when Americans’ interest in food and culture seems to be reawakening, Gourmet magazine goes out of business. Much has been written about the end of Gourmet, but I very much agree with what many of its readers and former […]

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