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North Africa

  • Salty Lemons

    It’s a lemony time of year, these waning days of January when the air is chilly, the earth is covered with no longer fresh snow, and a…

  • The Longest Winter

    I woke this morning to yet another snowfall, this one downy soft, yielding only about four inches by the time it had stopped. Truly, this seems like the winter with no end.…

  • North African red pepper sauce

    Red Hot and Fishy

    I admit I wasn’t hugely impressed with a lot of the food I had in Israel last October. So much of it seemed derivative from, and nowhere near as good as, food…

  • salmon for the oven

    A Christmas Salmon

    Since the vegetarians in my family don’t object to fish, seafood in some form tends to be the centerpiece of holiday meals. For Christmas this year it was a hefty side of…