Wendy Gordon
By Wendy Gordon
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Food Do-It-Yourself Knish
Our family moved from Roslyn, Long Island to Portland, Oregon in 1993. That spring, while standing on the sidelines on a soggy soccer field another mother asked me: “Have you done your canning yet?” No one had ever asked me this in Roslyn. When I arrived in Roslyn from Chicago twelve years earlier, one thing…
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Food Deli: Comfort Food for the WWII Generation
My mother-in-law’s favorite restaurant is a deli called TooJay’s. Whenever I visit her in Florida from my home in Portland, Oregon, that is where she wants to eat. It is rarely where I want to eat. I’d much rather sit out on a sunny deck and drink a margarita than squish inside an unprepossessing diner…
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