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A reintroduction and a new name
Nov 9, 2025
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Cooking and Growing
Feb 2, 2025
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All the recipes, organized by meal type or featured ingredient
Oct 24, 2025
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Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Shortbread (v, gf)
They go together like you and your cat
Feb 8
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie (v, gf)
Should I even be publishing this?
Jan 24
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The Problem With Recipes
Apr 14, 2024
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The Secret Ingredient: Alicia Kennedy on Coconut Oil
Feb 18, 2024
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Eat For Your Season
Aug 4, 2024
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Baking with Za'atar
Aug 3, 2025
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Essays
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How Not To React To The New Food Pyramid
Please don't make 80% of your diet ultraprocessed foods like some Slate writers
Jan 11
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Six Favorite Books of 2025
Only one of which is technically about food
Dec 14, 2025
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On Being a Squirrel
A conversation with Ellena Baum about tree time and chestnuts
Dec 7, 2025
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Summer at the Market
Today is my final farmer’s market of the season!
Oct 26, 2025
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If the Word for World were Forest...
On Tree Crops and Resiliency
Oct 12, 2025
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A Society of Plants
"I like to welcome chosen weeds into my life"
Sep 14, 2025
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Recipes
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Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Shortbread (v, gf)
They go together like you and your cat
Feb 8
1
The Chocolate Chip Cookie (v, gf)
Should I even be publishing this?
Jan 24
7
3
Dry Salad (v, gf)
AKA Dressed Up Kale Chips
Jan 4
6
1
Almond Cardamom Sugar Cookies (v, gf)
And labor thinking
Dec 21, 2025
5
Chestnut Buckwheat Waffles (v, gf)
Waffles with flavor
Nov 17, 2025
3
2
Market Table Recipes
If you’re in the area, I have a bunch of popups coming up: I’ll be at The Local Saugerties next Saturday with sandwiches and snacks, Nut Fest at Rose…
Nov 2, 2025
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Chestnut Coffee Cake (v)
"Like if a tree was a soft and sweet and you could bite into it"
Oct 19, 2025
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Chestnut Focaccia (v)
Try it at the Big River Chestnut Festival next weekend!
Oct 5, 2025
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