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Roots for the Home Team

We are a baseball family. I have been devoted to the Chicago Cubs since the mid-seventies when I fell in love with the game and, ahem, Bill Buckner and Manny Trillo.  I even got to meet Bill Buckner.  Be still my beating heart. And had he stayed with the Cubs,…

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Recipes

When Salt Meets Fruit

Who doesn’t love the sweet and salty taste of a chocolate covered pretzel?  Or salted caramel ice cream? Or salt on an apple?  Wait, what?  I recently Google-landed on a list of “12 Weird Fruits You Should be Salting.” The title was a bit misleading as most of their suggestions…

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