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Comment on My Vegetable Love — by FindingStrengthToStandAgain
We don’t find fresh corn on the cob here quite as good as it is back in my home state. My poor children are robbed of the joy gained from eating the corn on the cob dripping with butter. Their braces...
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Comment on My Vegetable Love — by Touch2Touch
But just think — in a couple of years their magnificent straight bites will enable them to be super-efficient when they tackle the delicious yellow stuff! (True, the Midwest is unparalleled for great...
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Comment on The Heart of the Matter — by Touch2Touch
I like your interpretation — and I like your artichoke preparation too!
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In California it seems to me they eat them all year around! But here in New England it’s more like catch as catch can. If I ever see them looking round and fresh and fat, and they don’t cost the earth,...
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Comment on My Vegetable Love — by Touch2Touch
That sounds so exotic, Madhu. Not to mention delicious — I think I would like the sweet potatoes that way a lot!
View ArticleComment on The Clouds Above Us — by Touch2Touch
In what part of the world are you celebrating right now? I think of you as a true citizen of the world, Madhu!
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Comment on No Second Chances? Who says? Fifty Years After — by Madhu
A great read Judith! How wonderful for you that you were given a second chance to return to a place where you felt you belonged. I feel hopeful of achieving some measure of that contentment someday....
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Comment on The Clouds Above Us — by Madhu
At home at the moment. Off to Delhi, Agra, Lucknow and Varanasi in just over a week
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Comment on No Second Chances? Who says? Fifty Years After — by Touch2Touch
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, Madhu! It strikes me that I’m carrying out the promises made in the poem Warning, by Jenny Joseph: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat...
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Comment on No Second Chances? Who says? Fifty Years After — by Madhu
Almost there Judith! And no, it doesn’t seem too bad at all from where I stand. At least not as bad as I expected, when I assumed fifty was ancient!. Except for time seeming to race by so much faster
View ArticleComment on The Clouds Above Us — by Touch2Touch
Oh, my! Every single one of those names is one to conjure with! My knowledge of India comes mostly from novels of many kinds. Some travelers’ memoirs. And cookbooks — I love food and cookbooks, and of...
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Comment on The Clouds Above Us — by Madhu
That must have been amazing! We haven’t traveled around India much. Feel it is time to remedy that, before we run out of time and money
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Comment on No Second Chances? Who says? Fifty Years After — by Touch2Touch
Energy and enthusiasm are youthful traits, Madhu, and you have them in abundance. Energy may begin to flag (and does) but enthusiasm, the looking forward to the new, the unusual, the learning — that...
View ArticleComment on The Heart of the Matter — by Random Acts of Writing
I have only tried to cook an artichoke once – hoping for some of that “vegetable love.” So I trimmed off the outside leaves (aren’t they ALL outside leaves after a while?) and cut out the choke (where...
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Comment on The Heart of the Matter — by Touch2Touch
Well, our course is clear. Next time you come this way north, I do lunch for you, and you’ll enjoy (I certainly hope!) an artichoke tout complet — With parmesan aioli or melted butter, your choice.
View ArticleComment on “The Hurrier I Go—” by bhawnavij
I’m always a bundle of nerves. There are two things I tell myself before I start. First is that this too shall pass and the other is that I take a day at a time. Once I start, and I get in the midst of...
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I wish I could take this course 1) because it sounds so cool! and 2) so I could sit in the front row and cheer you on! I KNOW you’ll be great! (I checked my sources for the hurrier quote and came up...
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In the midst of it — that’s the good part! Thanks, Bhawna!
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It must be cool, because we have this long waiting list! Opening movie — Eat Drink Man Woman — and closing movie — Tampopo — are among my favorites of all time. Only problem — have to go out for Asian...
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ooh I’m envious. Just coming up the British Film festival here -yeaaa.
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