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August 19, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. By this time of the summer, I am always awash in fruit. I love it…and I hate it. Harvesting your own produce is time sensitive, messy, and exhausting. Yet there is nothing that I love better in this world than homemade peach pie …
July 9, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “I always thought that tea was just gonna taste like hot brown water. And you know what? I was right. It’s horrible. No, thank you.” – Ted Lasso Because some places are starting to open up and because I see hope creeping back …
June 26, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Bread is of universal importance. Since nearly every culture has a type of bread used for celebration, ceremony and comfort, today’s blog breaks bread in the form of an invitation for community. Thank you for joining me today. First, I want to share …
July 27, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Food is often thought of in terms of comfort, enjoyment, family gatherings, and parties. We have barbecues in summer and stews in winter. Messy finger foods accompany sporting events and polite finger foods accompany baby showers. These things are linked by their participation …
June 15, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “A wise man always eats well.” – Chinese proverb MFK Fisher (a friend and contemporary of Julia Child) first published How to Cook a Wolf in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The book deals with domestic stresses during war time, …
January 19, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Did you know that nearly 70% of social media revolves around food? Seriously, we want everyone to know our favorite recipe, menu, restaurant, table-setting, drink or dinnertime. So many photos of food exist on Pinterest and Facebook it would spin your head. Why …
September 2, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire certainly discusses the idea of taste. He has a very rigid understanding of what classical Roman art should be. In fact, according to Gibbon, the stagnation of Rome’s art is one indicator of Rome’s …
August 19, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harvest time is a bittersweet time for me. With the wonderful fruit, comes long hours of picking, canning and packaging. The weather also changes, days get shorter and the winter schedule is much tighter than summer’s. Change can be difficult to deal with, …
