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How to Make a Website and a Swedish Almond Wreath
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After I retired from Williams, I decided it was time for a makeover of sorts. I don’t mean my look or my hair or even my wardrobe. It was all…
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How to Write a Russian Cookbook in the Age of Trump
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When my brilliant editor at Ten Speed Press asked me to write a new Russian cookbook, I cringed. I couldn’t help remembering what happened the first time around. September 1,…
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Five things I found in my freezer
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The hardest thing about retiring from Williams was clearing my office of 34 years’ worth of accumulated stuff. It wasn’t just the volume of papers and books that I had…
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Cheesemaking in Georgia
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The Republic of Georgia, that is. The Beatles may have claimed that “Georgia’s always on my my-my-my-my-my-my mind,” but I can truthfully say that Georgia really is on my mind…
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Women under siege
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During the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted for nearly 900 days between 1941 and 1944, people had to be creative beyond measure simply to stay alive. Because most of the…