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Asparagus and carrots in a Le Creuset dutch oven. Photo courtesy Sur La Table. The English word “asparagus” derives from the Latin sparagus, derived from the Greek asparagos, which itself derived from the Persian asparag, meaning sprout or shoot. The stalks shoot up from the crown of the plant and, if not harvested, the…
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Patent leather bunnies, rock ‘n’ roll eggs. Photo courtesy Maggie Louise. While we know a couple of investment bankers who became chocolatiers, Maggie Louise is the first Harvard lawyer we’ve encountered. After a career in corporate law, she trained at Le Cordon Bleu, where she developed the concept for an elegant line of chocolates.…
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It’s easy to brew better coffee. Photo courtesy Filicori Zecchino. Do you buy more coffee outside the home because you can’t brew a better cup of coffee? Consider this checklist to improving your home efforts: 1. Start with a clean carafe. Coffee has oil that builds up in the carafe. You can’t see it,…
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[1] Curried egg salad on toast (photo © Louise Mellor | Safe Eggs). [2] Curry power. Here’s a recipe if you want to make it yourself (photo © Savory Spice Shop | Facebook). To mark the end of National Egg Salad Week, the second week in April, we made a delicious curried egg salad…
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The Ataulfo, or Champagne, mango. Photo courtesy ILoveMangoes.com. When you think of mangoes, you may think of the familiar reddish-green mangos and wonder about the petite golden-yellow ones that some people call baby mangoes. They’re Ataulfo mangos from Mexico, also commonly called Champagne mangoes, and they’re in season now. Mango lovers prefer them to…
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