Tag: gingerbread

Writing her way into our kitchens

“Food is not fuel. It is not nutrition. It is fun, educational, horizon expanding, delightful. It is consoling, transporting and a comfort. If you want a happy eater, run a happy kitchen. These things take time, but so do all good things.” — Laurie Colwin, “More Home Cooking: A Writer […]

Remembering a friend through gingerbread

[M]y recollections of gingerbread begin with a very special kindergarten teacher who brought both her morning and afternoon classes TO HER HOME for a day of sledding and making gingerbread. She had the dough already made and allowed us all — snowy and unruly — into her kitchen (somehow we […]