A pear rant

Photo by Doni Greenberg

Sometimes I just don’t know when to leave well enough alone.

Take my pear dumplings, for example. Please.

They were adaptations of a perfectly lovely Apple Dumpling recipe from a Napa cooking class I attended at Copia: American Center for Wine,…

Rob’s mother’s recipe

Stop me if I’ve already told you this story, but my most memorable Thanksgiving was when I was about 7 or 8. Our family was invited to the Norgaar’s, across from our East Street house. (The Kiwanis house sits there…