HYMNS IN THE KITCHEN

It's October, and while most life is sleepily getting ready for the impending cold winter months, some things are only just awakening, coming to full ripeness and ready to be enjoyed. Sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, gourds of all sorts, radish, winter kale. So many vegetables in their peak season and so versatile, each one of them. Autumn is my favorite time of the year to cook and to bake. My oven blazing and smells wafting through my home, a cup of tea refilled multiple t

There is something hauntingly marvelous about an evening in the month of September. The leaves are orange yet the weather still warm; one foot in the impending autumn, one foot stubbornly refusing to leave summer. I can say without hesitation that autumn is my favorite season of all, but a summer of memories that will never replay will hold me down long enough to enjoy the last few warm, hazy sunsets of the year. A cup of tea, a slice of cake, and the company of an old friend