Monthly Archives: March 2019
Maple Sugar Season in March
Warm days and cold nights keep the sap in sugar maple trees flowing. In New England, Native Americans taught settlers how to slash tree trunks and extract the sap to use as a sweetener. These buckets from a local farm … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, breakfast, brown betty, Maine, maple syrup, Native American, New England, oats, sap
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Vodka with Old-World Elegance
In between a one-two-three punch of snowstorms, I pulled out The Russian Tea Room: A Tasting (Clarkson Potter, 1993), a book of recipes and reminiscences from then-owner, Faith Stewart-Gordon. I never went to the Manhattan restaurant but its tea (and … Continue reading
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