What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)
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Read between October 31, 2024 - May 24, 2025
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Cannellini beans, canned tuna, red onion, tomatoes, and olive oil. I made a pot of tomato sauce because I find the act and aroma comforting and I know I will eat
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with pasta or rice over the next few days.
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Without hesitating I ordered one of my favorite soups, stracciatella. Stracciatella is in essence an Italian egg-drop soup made with chicken broth, escarole, and, obviously, eggs.
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and we were treated to some of the best food in Rome: carciofi, sweetbreads, lamb chops, and tastings of three classic Roman pastas: alla gricia, all’Amatriciana, and the house specialty, spaghetti alla carbonara.
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Anyway, whether we indulge them a bit or not, what’s important is that they learn to love home cooking. Home-cooked food strengthens
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our bonds when we are together, keeps us connected when we are apart, and sustains the memory of us when we have passed away.
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boudin blanc,
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mange-tout
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guess sometimes you must be made extremely weak to find a strength you never knew you had.
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In so many attempts to save time, so many other things are wasted.
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samphire,
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Anyway, it was the right amount of food to fill me up but not drag me down.
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Chicken Cutlets SERVES 4 4 large chicken breasts Salt 2 or 3 eggs (enough to coat the chicken) 2 to 4 cups plain breadcrumbs Olive oil (not extra-virgin) Lemon wedges, for serving
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Why? Perhaps because it’s so simple it helps us focus on what is necessary: comfort and health. Eating a simple dish gives one clarity.
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Pasta with butter and cheese laughs in the face of our complex lives.
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generosity incarnate.
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It’s not much fun watching someone you love age.
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Movement is life affirming and life extending.
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sometimes we must let things go.
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langoustine
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Looking at something for just that little bit longer than you might normally will change not only the way you see that thing but everything else thereafter.
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believe that eating everything in moderation is the key.
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As they say, hope for the best but expect the worst. This
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When he spoke of his late wife, I knew instantly that he carried her and all her feelings inside of him.
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When someone you love dies, you absorb them. You take on their feelings and simultaneously experience life through their eyes and their heart as well as your own. In essence, you become them. This is not a conscious choice. It just happens.
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because one is not yet fully capable of accepting that person’s absence. It keeps them alive. Or at least it makes them less dead.
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Always the same but different.
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Well, as the old saying goes, one man’s pet is another pet’s meal.
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We all know that it’s the small consistencies of life that are vital to keeping us grounded.
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But this was reminiscent of the New York State summer corn that I grew up with.
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I’m very unfocused.
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could be my age, but I think it’s because my mind is often elsewhere rather than in the moment.
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goujons
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part of me just wants to stay home.
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And I hate the heat.
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(In Italian, aglio is “garlic,” so aglione basically means “big garlic.”)
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When it comes to certain things, the mindset of the medieval city-state is still alive and well throughout all of Italy.
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What’s worse than no one showing up to a party? Everyone showing up.
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The hardest thing about aging is how quickly
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happens and how slowly it occurs. I know that this has been said by someone before, but aging is the hands of a clock. We never see them move, but they do. You look away for what seems like just a moment and the next time you look back, it’s much later than you thought.
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Time cooking with someone you love is time well spent.
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gluttonized,
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told us that we must drink, dance on the bar, and do whatever we wanted to do because we should “live in this moment.” He started to cry toward the end of his speech, but after composing himself, he exhorted us to enjoy life because “tomorrow is an illusion!” Unfortunately Dimitri is more than right.
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even a glimmer of hope is hard to find. Human beings need one another because we can give each other so much, especially hope,
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bounty,
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This communion can ameliorate, unite, elate, stave off conflicts, and create long-lasting
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bonds of friendship an...
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the idea of communing through food is beautiful and something to be celebrated.
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Inconsistency is integral to growth and change.
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ended up with a soggy bottom, which is never a good thing, for tarts or people.
Jeanne
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