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Anticipating the Arrival of Irish Brown Soda Bread

The country bread of Ireland emerges soon from Bakehouse ovens As we enter the final weeks of winter—still cold, with days growing longer but not yet as bright as they will be soon—I wait eagerly … Continued

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Special Dinner: Jelly Bean Jump Up Hosts a Mini Camp Bacon

Celebrating SafeHouse Center, Nueske’s, and an amazing Corgi On Tuesday evening, March 31, we’ll gather to support SafeHouse Center, our local shelter for survivors of domestic abuse. It’s an especially meaningful evening for me—it marks … Continued

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88% Super Dark Blend Bar from Shawn Askinosie

A contributor to happiness at so many levels! In 1980, while I was still learning to cook the line, Mother Teresa’s team in India rescued a small orphaned boy from the streets of Calcutta. He was … Continued

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Guatemala El Regalito at the Coffee Company

A beautiful brew from the coffee-growing star of Central America March means the rollout of a great newly-arrived single-estate coffee from Guatemala. What we’ve come to know here in recent weeks as El Regalito—“the little … Continued

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Roadhouse Reopens Post Renovation

Dozens of oysters are cracked open to toast the occasion Last Wednesday afternoon, after six weeks of being closed for intensive and extensive renovations to the kitchen and a host of elements in the dining … Continued

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Our Annual Pie & Mash Pop-Up at Cornman Farms

British street food to warm up the final weeks of winter In the spring of 2024, BBC’s Paul Howard wrote, While I live ever more distant from my London birthplace, that doesn’t wholly quell its … Continued