potato was gorgeously dripping with butter. 9. malt as a flavoring 10. saltines 11. iceberg lettuce [For your paper, I think that perhaps you’ll want to narrow it down to very specific geographic regions.]

cepe in Manhattan, much as I would love to. Another poster made the tart though using a combination of fresh button mushrooms and dried porcini, as suggested by SH as a substitute. Chicken: fennel(?) Chocolate: Macaroons or...

My food background is highly varied, coming from humble 70’s era cream soup everything, chili dogs with Hormel, hamburger rice hotdish and mock chow mein to being a very poor single mother who once subsisted on saltines and...

with her. I’m so lucky to have so many of her recipes – she baked by eye so I’d watch and measure every single thing she did and write it down. Good memories...I miss my Mormor.

Experiment with some spices. Since you’re shooting for simple, try them singly. I’m a maniac for fennel.

vanilla "malteds" — light purple, blue, pink. When the microwave oven first came out and there were no cookbooks to explain how to use it, my mother put just about everything in it, just to see what would happen. Try a...