Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

My good friend Pat Williams, whom I met doing a story that included Indian River Select juices, saw my Lost and Found recipe feature and wrote this to me:
I used to make this 15 or 20 years ago. Somewhere in my moves, I lost the recipe.
My best friend from high school visited me last week [...]

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Another cookie contest over — hallelujah! The Palm Beach Post’s annual Holiday Cookie Contest caused about 125 cooks to fire up their ovens (some entered more than one cookie; others baked as a team to enter one) in hopes of winning a $50 prize and get their photo and recipe in the paper.

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I love Brussels sprouts – and I’ll eat them with anything. It’s the big laugh among two of my closest friends — Scott Simmons (knows all things elegant glass) and Lou Ann Frala (photographic memory of any catalog item). I had an impromtu housewarming dinner at a new apartment a few years ago, and served [...]

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Friend and former Post library worker Michele Smith is looking for an old recipe: Can you help?
I’m looking for some help here. Once upon a time I had my great-grandmother’s pumpkin pie recipe – it’s made like an apple pie with pumpkin chunks and two crusts.
Well, I can’t find it and my Alzheimer’s Mom can’t seem [...]

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Reader and fellow quilter Beverly Snow of West Palm Beach writes:
Here’s my favorite recipe from “home”. My mom was the third generation in our family to manage an inn and restaurant on Cuttyhunk Island, Mass., called the Bosworth House. Our cook, Robbie, had adapted one of my grandmother’s recipes to serve guests, and I’ve scaled it back [...]

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