Here's the new design for the paperback edition of PIG CANDY -- which comes out in early May (feel free to pre-order!!). I love how this version highlights the photo of my dad as the spunky little kid that he was. Here comes trouble, no doubt about it.
I call them “Crackaroons”
It's a love-hate moment when I walk into High Point, my corner cafe, and see these in the bakery case. As my will continues to dissolve, I'm thinking about making them at home with this Epicurious recipe I found. Don't know that I need the almonds, and I suspect the...
and so the dividing & conquering begins…
Starting yesterday, and for the sixth year in a row, I'm gathering up all the little wayward volunteers and spreaders in my garden, potting them up, and selling them (ok, giving them away, practically) to neighbors and passersby sometime close to the end of May. My...
Spring = Vegetable Gardens = Canning Season!!
Against all better judgment, Farmer Margaret (my sister), Farmer John (my husband), and I doubled the size of our community garden plot for this year. On a beautiful hill overlooking the Schuylkill Valley and hosted by Philadelphia's great SCEE nature center, we have...
VA Book Festival Recap — F2F with History of all kinds
Today I met one of the actual plaintiffs from Brown v. Board of Ed -- John Stokes, who wrote about his high school's stand against Plessy v. Ferguson in the book Students on Strike. I felt that telltale chill that says: You are witnessing something world historical....