The Sandpoint Eater
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s soup season, and in anticipation of the cold and snowy months ahead of us, I’m already stocking my larder. Though I rely on many of my mother’s recipes...
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The Sandpoint Eater
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Happy National Nut Day. Talk about timing! But it’s just a fluke, folks. I’m speaking of tree nuts and peanuts, and this is a holiday I can embrace like...
The Sandpoint Eater: Filling my glass
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Honestly, these past six months have kicked my ass, and I’ve lost a bit of my sass. By nature, I’m not even a “glass-half-full” kind of gal. My glass...
The Sandpoint Eater: Better with butter
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Last week was a rough one. I’d finally found my “COVID-19 cool” and begun some outdoor entertaining on my deck, a couple of friends at a time, with a...
The Sandpoint Eater: Homegrown tomatoes
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Between COVID-19 and anticipating that my Chicago road trips would keep me away from home a lot this summer, I spent neither much time planning nor planting a garden....
The Sandpoint Eater: Bubble up
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I was raised on penny candy (which I now call highway-robbery candy). Even with inflation, I am hard pressed to pay upwards of 50 cents (or more) for the...
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By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist As much as I like to consider myself well versed in the gastronomic arts — dedicating a fair amount of time to answering food-related questions for family, friends and...
The Sandpoint Eater: Cooking my heart out
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist My mother had three well-worn cookbooks: a double volume set of Meta Given’s Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking and Household Magazine’s Searchlight Recipe Book. All hold spaces of honor in...
The Sandpoint Eater: Mix and mask
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s hard to wrap my head around the past few months — silly me, thinking this COVID-19 pandemic that blew into our lives, wreaking havoc on a blustery day...
The Sandpoint Eater: Pick a pepper
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s not easy to pick a favorite chile pepper, as there are literally a couple thousand to choose from, but I’ve learned from experience which ones work with my...
