Tag: Christmas
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Ode to Eggnog
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Imagine a chill December night, frost riming the grassy slopes leading down to the Hudson River in New York State. A young man with dark hair and haunted eyes removes his cadet jacket and slings it over the back of a colonial-era chair beside a small wooden table. He lights…
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A humble pudding creates a ruckus
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Now that we’ve been on the subject of British food at Christmas, who’d have guessed that a little bit of crusty, puffy goodness would become the nucleus of a holiday controversy? I can’t remember when I became interested in Yorkshire pudding; probably from an old boyfriend’s British mother decades ago,…
