Vintage American recipes and the stories behind them. Maple Flows from Tree to Table. In the 17th century, English settlers learned from the native people how to slash maple trees, collect the sap, and boil it down to its essential sweetness. Grog-gy Cheers to 2018! January 2, 2018.

Above the Hum of Yellow Jackets. Ink Dogs in my Shoes. Our new website is up and running.

Tuesday, April 04, 2017. At the age of eighty-five, Hans Jaeger finds himself a castaway among a group of survivors on a deserted island. What is my particular crime? He asks . Why have I been chosen for this fate? And so he begins his extraordinary chronicle. It would be an understatement to say he has lived a full life.

A Christmas Card Kind of View. I owe it all to Rachel. As I sit writing this, a few days before Christmas 2016, my 60. The house on Sheridan Road had a fireplace the length of the .

A blog detailing food and drink in classic and modern literature. Neruda is my favorite poet in all the world. He writes in a sensual, lyrical rhythm that is a gorgeous combination of the magical realism so common in Latin American writing, and a pure, romantic worldview centered around love. His arguable masterpiece of love poetry is his. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.