Category: Movable Feast
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Chocolate Marshmellow Cookies
My mother bakes generously, and always with purpose. There’s never any tiptoeing around the kitchen with her she knows what she is doing even with her eyes closed. She bakes often—nearly every day—and it’s never just for herself. Someone’s dropping…
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BlackBerry Pie Making Lesson
First, find your blackberry bramble and pick four cups of fresh, handpicked blackberries. They should be plump and have a glossy coat. Set them aside while you prepare the crusts. In a separate bowl, stir together three-quarters of a cup…
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Blackberry Days
Coming home is a quiet kind of reckoning.The road curves the same way, but the view is different.My mother — just shy of ninety — still makes pies with the same steady hands,rolling dough like she always has,as if the…
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The French Baguette
In France, it’s not a baguette.It’s the baguette.Sacred. Daily. Ritual.Crunch. A baguette isn’t bought.It’s chosen.Some like them bien cuite—dark, crusty.Others say pas trop cuite—soft shell, pale.The baker nods.They know. And yes.The first thing you do—when you walk out of the bakery—is pinch off the…
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Provençal Canned Fruit
In Provence, there’s a way to keep fruit long after the picking days have passed. It isn’t a recipe so much as a rhythm—They call it fruits au soleil—fruit preserved by the sun. You begin in the morning, when the orchard…
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Amazing Desserts
The last day of our group trip always leads us to Cassis—a tradition that’s the pearl in the crown. Cassis always shining no matter how many times we go. We gather for our final meal at Chez Gilbert, a family-run…