Monthly Archives: April 2014
Beef Stew: Traditional Boston Marathon Finish Line Dish
After I managed to trudge through all 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon at the pace of a tortoise having a rough day, I gratefully received a bottle of water almost as soon as I crossed the finish line. Wrapped … Continue reading
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Tagged beef stew, Boston Marathon, Harvard University, runner
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Matzo in the Mountains in Charleston, West Virginia
My great-grandfather, A.P. Silverstein, an immigrant from Lithuania, traveled through the central United States as a peddler in the 1890s. As family legend goes, his horse dropped dead and he couldn’t afford another, so he stayed in West Virginia. He … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, Charleston, Jewish, matzo, Passover, peddler, West Virginia
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“Bunns” from the Boston Cook Book of 1883
This week, my quest for retro ways to carbo-load for the modern endeavor of marathon running brought me to the Boston Cook Book of 1883. Its author, Mary J. Lincoln, principal at the Boston School of Cookery, taught cooking as … Continue reading
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Tagged American Kitchen Magazine, Boston, Boston School of Cookery, Mary J. Lincoln, Massachusetts, milk dough, yeast buns
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