On the road: Eating, cooking in Asheville.

With our dearest friends, we spent a long weekend in Asheville recently. We had eating and drinking on our agenda—specifically, sampling some local brews, hitting a couple of casual restaurants and, most important, stocking up at …

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Strawberry jam (again).

My happy jam-making experience last summer—with homemade strawberry, blueberry and tomato jam—had me looking forward to getting out the canning pot and jars all over again. For a household of two people, we managed to go …

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Cooking with garlic scapes.

One of the many pleasures of growing your own garlic (see here for a how-to on growing garlic) is the arrival of garlic scapes. These are the little curlicue sprouts that shoot, almost overnight, from the …

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Free-form strawberry tart.

Some folks I know are intimidated by pie crust, thinking that it’s too difficult to handle and too easy to mess up. If you count yourself among them, then I have two suggestions: First, try my …

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