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The Things They Carried

February 24, 2016by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

Kansas. The Wheat State.   If you stopped in at Lois and Jerry Keller’s 5,000-acre farm outside Ellis, Kansas, you would see a tall winter hardy cultivar, ‘Turkey’ hard red […]

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Writing in Restaurants

September 11, 2015by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

She called herself the Deer Valley girl in the subject line of an email she sent. Leisl, actually from Salt Lake City not Deer Valley, had strolled right up to […]

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Le Week-end

June 5, 2015by peggywolffwriter 2 Comments

When people want to assume cultural arrogance, words like pâté and terrine often come up, evoking the pleasures of a stylish picnic, in France of course, where you and your […]

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Food books for Mother’s Day !!! May 2nd Independent Booksellers Day

April 30, 2015by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

The best Indie Bookstore in the country!!  The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, in Winnetka IL, will be offering lots of special activities and discounts and a raffle!! to celebrate […]

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Alcatraz Women’s Club Cookbook

March 26, 2015by peggywolffwriter 4 Comments

Alcatraz Island, the American icon and symbol of society’s attempt to isolate its most dangerous criminals, was also home to the guards and their families. I didn’t even think about […]

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The 12 Steps to Serve a Beer

March 7, 2015by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

Where to next? New York? Denver? New Orleans? A tour of the national parks out west? I can find so many great reasons to ride these routes with Pullman Rail […]

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Obama declares Pullman Historic District a national monument now part of the National Park System

February 13, 2015by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

If you traveled by rail at the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th, you were part of a glittering clientele from business, arts, politics, and […]

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Artisanal Baking: Immigrant-inspired Loaves in the Salt-Water-Flour Brigade

December 8, 2014by peggywolffwriter Leave a comment

My Bread-u-Cation. After criss-crossing the Midwest in search of great home bread bakers who immigrated to America—the Germans, Lebanese, Finnish, Amish, Polish, Hungarian, and more—I have compiled their fabulous family […]

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WheatStalk 2014

September 25, 2014by peggywolffwriter 2 Comments

Bread as a Food Writer’s Muse Last weekend I attended the Bread Bakers Guild of America event, which was held at Kendall College in Chicago. In classrooms and labs, the […]

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Caramel and Bittersweet Chocolate Brownies

September 24, 2014by peggywolffwriter 2 Comments

 Caramel & Dark Chocolate Brownies There is a huge selection of chocolates on your local market’s baking shelf. How to decide what to use? Since manufacturers use the terms bittersweet […]

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