Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Norman Van Aken’s memory of fried chicken spurs my own.

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Editor’s note: I’m collecting recipes from my readers for the holidays – share your favorite to be published here! Click on the Contact button above to email me your favorite, and you could win a cookbook!
Here’s an unusual stuffing, submitted by my friend and a food blogger, Robyn Kalajian.
She writes: ”Here’s the Armenian version of turkey [...]

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Editor’s note: This is one in a series of guest columns about summertime food memories. If you have one to submit, contact me through the Contact button at the top of the page. 
 
By Susan Brustman, Guest Columnist
 When you live in New York, pretty much everything tastes better in the summer.
I remember my dad giving me [...]

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Editor’s note: This is one in a series of guest columns about summer food memories. Submit your personal food memory of summer and its tasty delights by emailing me through the contact button at the top of the page.
 
By Jane Milza, Guest columnist
It was a sultry, sunny Saturday afternoon when, for the first time, I encountered a [...]

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by Scott Simmons, columnist
My great-grandmother, Lilla Chason Griffin, was a practical woman.
Granny, born in 1888, made her own mops from cornhusks, and brooms from the broomstraw that grew along the roadsides. She matched her feed and flour sacks to fabric she already had to make dresses, aprons and such.
It wasn’t easy living on the farm [...]

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