vol. 13, num. 4 :: 2014.02.21 — 2014.03.06
As the snow flies, there’s nothing quite like…what? What comes to mind for you when you think about “comfort food?” No matter what climate we live in, food has the power to warm more than just our stomachs. A collection of stories and recipes.
Remembering a mother’s edible expressions of love.
Re-routing our habits toward true comfort food.
Cooking up a storm in the snow.
Food and home, from the southern U.S. to southeast Asia.
An inherited recipe compliments a darkening evening.
A reflection on the way oppression has shaped U.S. diets.
A list of seasonal comfort foods to warm the whole person.
Andi Ashworth writes about cooking for the family.
Lisa Treacy on the hospitable potential of furniture.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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