Winter Salad

My grandmother would be rolling her eyes if she saw what I’ve been eating the last few days. I’m visiting Kripalu – a yoga center in the heart of the Berkshires, diagonally across from Tanglewood – summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Kripalu, once a monastery, is perched high on a hill looking directly [...]

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Homemade Tomato and Cheese Pizza

The smell of yeast is all it takes to remind me of warm cinnamon buns – the kind my grandmother used to make. I can picture her wearing a gaudy floral housedress, mixing dough on a flour dusted counter. She’d roll out the dough and sprinkle it with cinnamon/sugar and form it into a jelly [...]

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Naan: The New Pita?

Naan, the tandoori baked flatbread with a bubbly surface, could very well be the new “pita”. It’s now in the bakery section of most supermarkets – even Costco carries it – and can be made with white or whole wheat flour. Although higher in calories then pita it has some of the same attributes – [...]

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