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Crazy Easy Okra Three Ways without the Slime

Crazy Easy Okra Three Ways without the Slime

Okra is way too easy to hate, which isn’t fair because there’s so much to love! It says “summertime” almost as ringingly as the tomato sandwich. But it’s okra’s slime that turns people off. I get it. And I’ve been one of those people. Then […]

Beans and Rice Multi Colored Because Diversity Is Delicious

Beans and Rice Multi Colored Because Diversity Is Delicious

(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. […]