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Lydia
A small city kitchen in Boston's South End
Since 2006, food blogging at The Perfect Pantry®, for the first 9 years from my log house kitchen, and now from my city apartment. Publishing e-cookbooks from The Perfect Pantry® kitchen.
Interests: travel, cooking, reading, photography, art (seeing and making), trying to get tomatoes to grow in my herb garden.
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We see (Ouisi)
By now, if you're more organized that I am, you've been making your holiday gift list, and checking it twice. If you've still got a few holes on your list, it's hard to imagine any family or friends of any age who won't like the card game Ouisi ("we see").... Continue reading
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Breakfast for a week, or for a crowd. Or for dinner.
Posted Nov 26, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Chain of Fools?
Awesome. Wow. Whoopie. She's not Aretha Franklin, who recorded this in 1968; she's Gezel Bardossi, a 12-year-old Australian girl who sang this for her audition for The Voice of Australia in 2023. Close your eyes when you listen to Gezel. You'll swear Aretha is singing in your ear. (Thanks to... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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They Arrived Homeless. Now They’re Helping Others Make New York Home.
This article appeared in the New York Times on November 11, 2023. It made me happier than almost anything I've read in a long time. ********************* At a makeshift welcome center in the Lower East Side, those who came before help those who are new, and a community begins to... Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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The volunteering life {looking ahead}
Posted Nov 7, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Collage kits for all ages
Posted Oct 27, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Layla, you've got me on my knees. Again.
First recorded by Derek and the Dominos in 1970, "Layla", a hard rock classic co-written by Eric Clapton, was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Arabia and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi -- the... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Welcome blankets
Posted Oct 9, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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What goes with what?
Posted Oct 1, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Cole slaw, and so much more
Posted Sep 26, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Ponyhenge update
Posted Sep 22, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Magazines with benefits
Posted Sep 16, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Gentle little murders
Posted Sep 9, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Have you seen these potatoes?
Posted Sep 2, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Iko-Iko
One of the most well-known songs of Mardi Gras is “Iko-Iko,” made popular after an impromptu jam session was caught on tape by songwriting greats Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. In 1965 New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups were recording for Leiber and Stoller’s Red Bird Records in a... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage
Posted Aug 22, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Cucumber ribbon salad
Posted Aug 13, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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The volunteering life {how to find your gigs}
Posted Aug 9, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Elevated Access
Posted Aug 2, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Comments on, comments off?
Most blogs, including this one, allow readers to add comments to any post. The comments can be read by anyone, and occasionally will start a conversation that adds to the topic the blogger has posted about. I love hearing from readers, but on this particular blog, it seems most people... Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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The volunteering life {one on one}
Posted Jul 23, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Gordon Lightfoot
Posted Jul 19, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Seeing in color {cinema palettes}
Posted Jul 4, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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The oldest public park in America
Posted Jun 28, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Harry Belafonte, musician, actor, civil rights activist
Posted Jun 21, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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