Last week one of the commenters on my blog asked me about when and how I learned to knit and I decided to respond here. It’s not a long story but it comes with pictures. My mother was not a knitter. Maybe in reaction to her own mother, who was a high school art and [...]
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Learning to knit
Posted in family, knitting, recollections on December 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Pizza memories
Posted in baking, family, food, recollections on November 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When I was in the eighth grade, at least a lifetime ago, my family spent a year living in a small town in the mountains of central Mexico called San Miguel de Allende. At the time we lived there the town was still small and, while it did attract its fair share of tourists, somewhat [...]
This bread recipe has never failed me
Posted in baking, food, recollections on November 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When we moved to Maine from Michigan one of the biggest adjustments I had to make was how far it was to a bakery that sold good, rustic loaves of bread. There are great bakeries in Maine but all of them were at least a 40 minute drive from our house. So I learned to [...]
