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By TINKY WEISBLAT
Cookie season has arrived. I don’t bake a lot of cookies in warm weather. For one thing, I’m loath to turn on the oven when it’s hot. For another, we don’t feel the need for cookies when we have sunshine and fresh produce.When the shortening of the...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Book Review: “Words to Live By,” created by John Bos, Pam Roberts, Keith Carver, and James McDonald (Cancer Connection, 130 pages, $20)John Bos first met Pam Roberts almost two decades ago when he took part in one of her “Spirit of the Written Word”...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Hanukkah begins tomorrow night, Dec. 7, at sunset. Sunset arrives earlier and earlier at this time of year as we approach the longest night of the year.To bolster our spirits in the darkness, holidays like Hanukkah and Christmas celebrate the gift of...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
In the days after an over-the-top Thanksgiving meal, I have been known to blanch at the idea (let alone the sight) of cream. I long for simple, light foods like salad. Unfortunately, there are often still leftovers in the house.Happily, I can throw...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
“I just love my life,” Lori Holmes Clark of Deerfield told me recently. “It’s like a patchwork of experience. The things that I’m doing are all connected to what I love to do.”She voiced this enthusiasm just as she was about to enter one of the...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
The first scene of “Northern Comfort” paints a bleak but memorable picture. It is mid-winter, and Willi Miller is trying to keep the circulation going in her fingers as she hangs laundry outside her home in a hilltown here in western Massachusetts....
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Early this month — on Nov. 1, to be exact — many of us woke to find snow falling outside.I know we have experienced snow much earlier in the fall in these parts in other years. Nevertheless, the weather had been so balmy at the end of October that I...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Last year at about this time, I sent out a request on Facebook asking friends to share their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. I quickly found one — and later saw a reply from my friend Marianne Schultz. This happened too late for me to use her recipe...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Most New Englanders see late October and early November as a time for winding down from summer and harvest activities. The leaves dwindle, the air takes on a distinct chill, and farm stands begin closing their doors.For cider lovers, however, this...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Halloween may be my favorite holiday. It’s certainly the holiday for which I have the most decorations. My Halloween bins are even more numerous than my Christmas bins.Some of this has to do with Halloween’s traditional spookiness, which gives the day...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Our Lady of Czestochowa Church in Turners Falls recently celebrated National Pierogi Day.The church’s Saint Hyacinth Pierogi Makers put a lot of thought into the celebration, parish council president Walt Hoszkiewicz told me in a recent interview.The...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Children’s books never age. The JoJo stories by Peter Rosnick of Conway, with illustrations by Kathryn Burke, originated decades ago, according to the author. They seem eternally fresh, however.JoJo is an extremely small person — half an inch tall at...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Children’s books often work best when they incorporate educational messages into fun, engaging stories. This combination of fun and learning forms the center of “Fur & Feather’s Together: A Tale of the Highland Woods” by Patricia Williams, with...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
I have neighbors who are farmers and neighbors who are gardeners. Peggy and Grahame Travers merit their own category: homesteaders.The couple moved to Hawley in 2017 from Great Britain, where Grahame had worked in horticulture, and Peggy had been a...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
I wrote a couple weeks ago about my lifelong love of chamber music, particularly as offered by Mohawk Trail Concerts. I had music classes in school, too, of course, but I have learned most over the years from watching musicians perform live.In the...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
I know I have written a lot recently about dead people: my parents, my neighbor Florette, most recently Arnold Black. I do know people who are alive, I promise! And next week we’ll publish an article about one or more of them. I have one more dead...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
Food does much more than nourish us. It connects us to other people, in the present and in the past.This week I’m using it to remember Arnold Black (1923-2000) of Charlemont and New York City. Arnie was a composer, a violinist, and the founder of...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
I love being a food writer, despite the relatively low pay. I get to indulge my senses. I get to learn about people and cultures by trying their recipes. I even get to deduct the price of some of my groceries.Perhaps the thing I enjoy most about this...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
I have been meaning to write about no-bake desserts since June, but each week another dish or book or cook has grabbed my attention. With Labor Day (and fall!) looming, this is just about my last chance to feature a dessert that doesn’t require a warm...
By TINKY WEISBLAT
“When Being a Nurse Was Fun”by Ann WattStillwater River PublicationsJust about everyone comes into contact with nurses at some point, and just about everyone likes them. It’s hard not to admire people whose mission in life is to be competent and...
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