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It’s an eventful year for Frankie: she starts a new school (the formerly all-boys St. Seb’s, at which girls are welcome officially if not in practice), her normally outgoing mother becomes so depressed she won’t get out of bed, and… y’know, boy stuff. It’s YA, after all.
I didn’t love it like I loved Jellicoe Road, [...]

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…and am somewhat sorry.
One of my Summer Projects is to get a handle on vegan and/or gluten-free baking. (Yes, I realize that summer in Boston is perhaps not the ideal time to turn on the oven ever, let alone on a weekly basis, but this is when I have free time. Insert inappropriate joke about [...]

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This one isn’t GF (sorry, S!), nor is it vegan, but it is dairy-free. It also isn’t very good, so you aren’t missing out. I started with Heather Van Vorous’s Lemon-Glazed Sticky Bread recipe from Eating for IBS, and then heavily adapted it for my own purposes such that it is now an entirely new [...]

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Remember back a month ago, when we Bostonians were boiling our tap water and freaking out about it? I promised to donate $10 for each day of the “crisis” to a water charity, as a reminder of how stunningly lucky we are to have safe water come out of taps in our homes the other [...]

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Thanks to some health problems and the end of the school year, I’ve been a posting slacker. I promise to clean up the backlog soon, etc. etc. Anyway, my newly restricted diet plus S’s own dietary restrictions have led to some bold experiments in gluten-free, animal-fat-free (vegan with egg whites) cooking. Some have been successful. [...]

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