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Meet the Messy Rhubarb Fool: Part Mess, part Fool, it’s basically a rhubarb sundae with a base of meringue
06-02-2025 10:17 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Some food names are impossible not to love. I have never made a Brown Betty, but I relish the idea of a crumbly dark dessert with a female name. I am still trying to figure out the difference between a Slump and a Grunt. Both appeal to me as descriptors.

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‘To Stir, with Love’: Cooking asparagus risotto is a combination of chemistry and magic
05-27-2025 8:00 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Next week, I plan to feature rhubarb, one of my favorite spring foods. Today, however, I’m returning to that other beloved seasonal product in our area, asparagus, or spearage as a culinary historian friend calls it. A few days ago, I had a hankering to stir it into some risotto.


In asparagus season, try Eggs Beatrice: The story behind one of the most popular brunch dishes
05-19-2025 10:55 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Many people (and restaurants) contemplating brunch turn to Eggs Benedict.


Make America cake again: How to bake an Election Cake
05-12-2025 2:15 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Food can be a tangible link to history. When we taste a recipe from the past, we experience that past in a specific, often delicious, way.


East-meets-West book ‘Kuni’ explores rural-urban connections
05-05-2025 3:00 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Spring is bringing trees and yards and farms to life all around us. In this season of rebirth, Shantigar and Raven Used Books are bringing a visionary thinker about land and community (and a delightful human being) to our area.


The dessert to bring to your next potluck: This easy, elegant torte is a crowd favorite
04-28-2025 12:39 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

A few weeks ago I hosted the Sons and Daughters of Hawley’s Mud Party. This annual event celebrates spring as we experience it in New England.


Fascinated by the seemingly infinite uses of eggs: Creamed eggs are an easy and delicious post-Easter nursery food
04-21-2025 12:40 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

The headlines last week were dire. Egg prices had reached an all-time high, just in time for Easter.


Little pillows of golden goodness: The beignet recipe of your dreams, courtesy of our beloved local Wells Provisions
04-14-2025 1:18 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Easter is traditionally associated with the return of rich foods to Christian diets. In the Middle Ages, Europeans followed a very strict diet during the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. They had only one meal a day and could eat no dairy, meat or eggs. Fish was allowed.


St. Sara’s chicken enchilada casserole: A colorful and comforting Tex-Mex dish
04-07-2025 3:04 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

We’re still in prime casserole weather so that’s what I’m making this week. This Tex-Mex dish is more Tex than Mex, but non-purists will enjoy its bubbly warmth.


For the love of peanut butter: April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
03-31-2025 12:28 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

When looking for inspiration for this column, I often consult lists of food holidays. I’m ambivalent about these holidays. On the down side, many of them were invented to serve corporate interests. On the plus side, new holidays are always fun to celebrate.


Pancakes, pop culture and patriarchy: Hasty Tasty Pancake Mix inspired by ‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet’
03-24-2025 1:53 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

As Massachusetts Maple Month comes to an end, I’m departing from my usual practice of making savory maple recipes. Instead, I’m preparing something sweet that most Americans associate with maple syrup: pancakes.


‘It might as well be spring’: The fifth season is marked by mud and maple syrup
03-17-2025 1:10 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I still can’t see anything but snow and ice in my Hawley yard, but new life is in the air nonetheless. My driveway has started looking and feeling muddy, a sure sign that the fifth season is upon us.


Historical fiction set in Quabbin region: Novelist J.A. McIntosh will read from ‘Swift River Secrets’ Sunday in Erving
03-14-2025 11:16 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

An author event tomorrow, Sunday, March 16, in Erving will explore the process of creating historical fiction from historical fact. Novelist J.A. McIntosh will also discuss the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir.


Colcannon from Colrain to Coleraine: Irish comfort food for Saint Patrick’s Day
03-10-2025 12:10 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Although strictly speaking I have little or no Irish blood (one of my great-grandmothers was Scots Irish), I still like to dress in green and make something Irish for Saint Patrick’s Day. This week I’m concentrating on Colcannon, basically gussied-up mashed potatoes. This dish adds lovely green vegetables to the spuds.


Saturday Night Live, postmodernism and paprika: A recipe inspired by one of the 50-year-old show’s memorable sketches
03-03-2025 1:44 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

We are awash in anniversaries this year. A century ago, in 1925, Mussolini rose to power in Italy. The Scopes Monkey Trial drew international attention to a modest courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee. Scotsman John Logie Baird aired the first public display of a television signal. And Irving Berlin published the eternal song “Always.”


Book Review: A penguin, a fish, and some hope: Author to read from fourth book in ‘Noodles & Albie’ series next week at Greenfield Public Library
02-28-2025 10:24 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Eric Bennett of Northampton will share his lifelong love of penguins next Saturday morning at the Greenfield Public Library.


Remembering a pioneering Black chef: James Hemings, Jefferson’s enslaved personal chef and half brother-in-law, was first American to become a French chef de cuisine
02-24-2025 1:01 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

For Black History Month, I’m making Macaroni Pie.


Muffins for Presidents Day: A recipe inspired by John and Abigail Adams
02-17-2025 7:10 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I’m celebrating Presidents Day a day late … with a recipe for treats our second president enjoyed at the breakfast table: muffins.


Something sweet for Valentine’s Day: The legend of the Neiman Marcus chocolate-chip cookie
02-10-2025 1:01 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

We tend to associate chocolate with Valentine’s Day. Americans will spend billions of dollars for that holiday this Friday, much of that money on chocolate. It seems like the perfect romantic gift.


A generous food writer and her biscuits: Remembering Nathalie Dupree, ‘the Julia Child of the South’
02-03-2025 2:27 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Nathalie Dupree died last month at the age of 85. Known as one of the doyennes of Southern cooking, Nathalie was a chef, cookbook author, and television personality.


Inspired by Pessoa and his many personas: New anthology features American responses to a Portuguese poet
01-31-2025 9:45 AM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Charles Cutler of Hawley first became fascinated by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the early 1960s when Cutler was in Lisbon on a Fulbright Scholarship. Pessoa turned into one of his favorite writers to teach as a professor at Smith College for more than 40 years.

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