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muscadine rose hand pies
Fall is rolling in like the tide, more and more each day. I’m not sure what it’s bringing with it or, more importantly, where it’s taking me. But there are some things I do know, that I can always...
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salted caramel apple dumplings with dried cherries & hazelnuts
I pulled up to the orchard, and my nerves were trembling most pleasant, my spine shivering. It was a long drive by myself to get there, a long drive past the Ocoee River spent exploring my own...
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autumnal french feast: local milk x ruthie lindsey design
The weekend before last I made the now familiar drive up to Nashville to stay and collaborate on a dinner with the effervescent Ruthie Lindsey, with me on the food and her on the styling. It was a...
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foraging + wild mushroom, fennel, & dancing fern galette
So many things are afoot these days, including a November Kinfolk Workshop on herbal infusions right here in Chattanooga. You can get your tickets here while they last! Also, a while back I mentioned...
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Chocolate-Dipped Pistachio Shortbread + A Giveaway
I have two things for you today: perfectly buttery pistachio shortbread dipped in dark chocolate from The Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book right in time for holiday cookie season, and I’m very pleased...
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uniform: imogene + willie
Uniform is a new series on the blog about the language of clothes. I grew up in actual uniforms, kindergarten to my senior year of high school. So clothes have always held a special thrall for me;...
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roasted pear & cranberry chocolate chunk scones
There are a few things I don’t have to think about in this life. By think I mean that razor faculty. That analysis. That untying of a concept or action, unpacking it in order to understand it. I don’t...
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local milk gift guide 2013
I know that as much as we all want to be perfectly mindful during the holidays many of us find it to be a rather intense amount of work (especially the cooks & hostesses among us!). So, I’ve put...
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Jalapeño Cornbread & Buttermilk Biscuit Stuffing
I remember one year when I was living out in California, taking meager solace in the sea & more substantial solace in a dear, brilliant neuroscientist shortly after my divorce, I caught the...
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Sage Ginger Prosecco Cocktail for West Elm
This is one of the cocktails we served at this past weekend’s Kinfolk Herbal Infusions workshop here in Chattanooga, TN. I created it to be not only appropriately festive for the understated &...
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Sweet Gum Co: Southern made & found provisions
A labor of love & collaboration with friends has finally come to life: I’m so happy to announce that my little pop up shoppe Sweet Gum Co. is now open for holiday shopping! It’s a carefully...
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Local Milk x Little Upside Down Cake: Portugal Workshop Retreat, May 2014
Yes, you read that right. I have a very, very special item in stock at Sweet Gum Co. now: tickets to our workshop in Portugal! I couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with Sanda of Little Upside...
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celeraic & chevre fennel agnolotti + brown butter parsley pesto & shiitakes
If there is any food that typifies the mundane made special, it’s fresh, handmade pasta. It’s plain, whole food: soft grain & fresh eggs. Little more. Making it isn’t glamorous. It’s manual labor,...
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Kinfolk Herbal Infusions Workshop Pt I: Satsuma Herb de Provence Salt &...
I never thought I’d be the sort to have an active interest in “laying a table”. I was the sort of girl that was interested in smoking cigars, riding on foreign trains, difficult books, and strangers....
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A Local Milk Christmas: Balsam Fir Syrup + Fennel Rosemary Cookies
I love the hieroglyphics of the holidays, the evergreen in the dead of winter. The ancient traditions & customs we’ve accumulated over thousands of years. Winter meant more before, before central...
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kinfolk infusions workshop pt 2 + fennel orange olives & hot buttered...
I heard something about a polar vortex when I had a headache. I laughed and it hurt. There was frost on the ground and all the kiddie schools were closed; bless your heart, Tennessee. My new cat...
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raw vegan(izable) chocolate truffles: chamomile + lavender + bee pollen &...
These are raw. Vegan (if you substitute agave for the honey & skip the bee pollen in favor of a dusting of chamomile—I use honey, but do not use bee products of any kind if vegan or cooking for...
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Kinfolk: Natural Decor Workshop, Nashville + Mushroom Tartines
In my dream you were there and you’d always been there. We’d known each other for a very long time, but I couldn’t recognize your face. You looked like me, beneath a wide brim hat in a cocoon. You...
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Black Eyed Pea “Hummus”
I wanted to run today. I wanted to run so badly. Run in sneakers. Not my usual bi-seasonal existential crisis sort of run. I mean, like, jogging. Pavement pounding, lung burning run. I wanted to...
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Valentine’s Day Cake: All Natural Red Velvet Beet Cake + Goat Cheese Thyme Icing
Yesterday I awoke to a letter telling me I was that same girl from two autumns ago. The letter said it saw me: saw me listless, saw me trilling & giddy, saw me working to the bone. The letter was...
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