My Kitchen Valkyrie persona has been quiet lately. The reason is simple: I don’t like to make food at all, so KV hasn’t been out much. But this recipe for a simple, classic sandwich filling or cracker spread is a definite keeper. When my mother makes it, my daughter and I take away as much of it as can be
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And the search you half remember/ Setting out on at the start/Is burning like an ember in your heart.–Jackson Browne, from Black and White Driving the Western Kentucky Parkway isn’t just traveling from the Bluegrass to the Western Coalfields for me; it’s peeling back through my history, and beyond. My ancestors settled in western Kentucky in the 18th century. Much
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This narrow path in Havasu Canyon, Arizona, leads down the cliff from which Mooney Falls drops. The cliff was named after an unfortunate miner who fell from the cliff in the 19th century. By the time his companions were able to reach him, his body was completely encased in the travertine that eventually glazes everything over which water flows in
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