My mother made this fabulous peanut butter pie as one of several desserts for Christmas dinner. We liked it so much that she made us another one for New Year. We’re not used to such a surfeit of sugar, and so retreated from rich sweets once the holidays had passed. When we recover, we’ll definitely try this pie again. Here’s
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“Mazy paths of rivers meander and by disposition I do the same,” says Martha Hall Foose at the beginning of her newest cookbook, A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home. The book is an interesting ramble through Foose’s culinary repertoire, foods local to Mississippi (including game, crawdads, and Premium Number One Beauregard sweet potatoes), sweet personal stories,
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The Valkyrie Brunhilde, from Arthur Rackham’s illustrations for The Valkyries (1910 Late July and early August bring the hottest, muggiest weeks of the year to Central Kentucky. The air feels swampy, and the heavy heat leads to lethergy. This simple, cold soup is an easy evening meal when it’s too hot even to turn on the stove. Ingredients 1 quart
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