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 …
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 …
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 …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Staff
My bags are packed and my new (to me) Ford Edge is loaded with everything I’ll need for this week’s epic, 1,800-mile, Chicago-or-bust road trip. …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I made it through my isolation birthday, sans friends and fanfare. Next on the calendar of events was Easter. Easter! Over the years, I have …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Last week was a milestone birthday for me, and I’m sure you can only imagine how distraught my children were that I would be celebrating …
Reader Columnist
I’ve been hitting “Mimi’s mysteries” from my freezers pretty hard this week. It’s just me and my three-legged, insulin-dependent cat, Laurel, and we’ve both been grateful for all …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
At any given time, in one of my three freezers (excessive, I know), you’ll find an assortment of naked lemons, limes and other citrus fruits, …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I’m heading to Chicago soon and, while my primary purpose is serving as a booth host for Tahiti Tourism at the Travel and Adventure Show, …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Standing tall on the counter in my kitchen is a brand-spanking-new, commercial mixer (a gift from all my children). The new mixer replaced my Kitchen …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
As much as I love my travels to foreign destinations, exploring fascinating new (to me) cultures and sampling unknown foods that amuse my palate, our …
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