Kristin Schell
I’m sitting at my kitchen desk, watching through the window as a FedEx truck pulls up to my neighbor’s house. Normally I wouldn’t give pause to a package being left in plain sight on their doorstep, but today is different. Today, the serial bomber in Austin, Texas is dead. The terror of deadly packages and unsuspecting tripwire, however, still looms…
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I want to be a bee keeper. It fits right in with my Wendell Berry inspired fantasies. Of course this new passion for bees comes on the heels of our 52 Sunday Suppers cooking class where we took a field trip to our neighborhood apiary, Bee Weaver. Since 1888, the Weaver family has been making the world sweeter with their…
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Community cookbooks line my kitchen shelves. Stories told in carefully measured portions make delightful feasts. Reading the yellowed pages of my grandmother’s Trinity Methodist Church cookbook transports me to suppers served at her oval, oak kitchen table in Hutchison, Kansas. Flipping through my collection of junior league cookbooks I imagine generations of women telling stories and passing down recipes seasoned…
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It’s spring in Austin and today was one of those chamber-of-commerce type days that defines why we live in our town. The morning air was crisp and without a cloud in the sky the sun warmed us to what we affectionately call California weather. A 75 – 55 degree split. We headed out with the girls to Town Lake for…
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In which we begin our 9th year…. Husband & I are celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary tonight as well as the end of another year. We enjoyed a wonderful meal at La Fonda San Miguel last night. After all the hustle and bustle in my own kitchen for Christmas, I thoroughly enjoyed a night out. My knife nipped fingers and…
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