Monthly Archives: June 2015

Dinners

A Poet’s Recipe: Shrimp Barka

If you watched Obama’s first inauguration you saw the beautiful Elizabeth Alexander read her inauguration poem, “Praise Song for the Day”, a poem I love so much that I’ve been reading it to my students ever since. (Google it and see for yourself.) Below is not a poem but a recipe from her memoir, The Light…

Kitchen Thoughts

Friends & Potlucks

This website has gone silent for over a year, and I need to tell you why. The main character in the reports of my attempts at cooking is gone. My beloved and infinitely patient husband R. died in February. For almost a year before his death I no longer cooked nor entertained. He had throat…