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Becky Fifield
Aug 8, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Cold Spring, NY
Cold Spring. RL Fifield 2012. Dr. V and I took the week off a couple of weeks ago, and finally followed through on a plan to go hiking....
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Becky Fifield
Aug 4, 20121 min read
What Urban Living Means to Your Refrigerator
I thought readers might enjoy a photograph of my refrigerator. You’ll notice it looks more like the one you had in college (except with...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 3, 20121 min read
Liquor Shopping in 18th Century New York
With all the cocktail goings-on currently, it’s worth a look back toward the 18th century processes being rediscovered and further riffed...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 1, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: San Francisco
The Cable Car Power House. RL Fifield, 2009. San Francisco is the city where I started to learn to look, compose, and photograph. I feel...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 29, 20121 min read
Finally: Tomato Sandwich Time
Yesterday morning, I took advantage of Mr. V’s need for extra zzzs to get some early morning errands done. The Upper East Side has always...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 25, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Hagerstown
Hagerstown? Where’s that? I recently attended a living history event at Fort Frederick State Park in Big Pool, Maryland. Restaurants are...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 24, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Fred Harvey Is Your Host
Fred Harvey was a British immigrant that brought high standards for trackside eating halls alongside the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 23, 20122 min read
Museum Monday: Lunch Hour at the New York Public Library
New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Photo: Wikipedia. My mother’s favorite meal of the day is lunch. Usually those...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 19, 20121 min read
Devil’s in the Details – Deviled Eggs
Devilled eggs. A staple at my family’s picnics. A 1950s joke. A modern canvas for fine herbs and expensive vinegar. My family recipe is...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 18, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Chicago’s a Classy Town
RL Fifield, 2012. As I mentioned before, there’s a certain wail of the horn still going in the Windy City. The city sprawls outward from...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 29, 20121 min read
Refreshing Drink? How about a Sauerkraut Cocktail?
Photo: Amazon I found this gem while flipping through Meta Given’s Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking. Originally written in 1947, my copy is...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 24, 20121 min read
Eighteenth Century Maryland Beer
I was looking for some family members using the American Antiquarian Society’s America’s Historical Newspapers database, and found this...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 20, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday – Aix en Provence
After my work trip to St. Tropez in 2008 (see last week’s post) I also stopped for a couple of days in Aix for another job. Here are a...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 17, 20122 min read
Join Me: Eat Only Local, In-Season Fresh Tomatoes
I grew up with the three-in-a-row packaged in cellophane variety of tomato in the winter, as that “red ingredient” to put into our...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 16, 20121 min read
What I Ate: New Haven
New Haven: City of Parking Garages. I was just in New Haven to attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 13, 20123 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday – St. Tropez
In November of 2008, during the time of the last presidential election, work took me to southern France. Here’s a clip of my travel...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 10, 20121 min read
It’s Sunday – Make Whafles!
This eighteenth century spelling of waffles was too good not to share. From Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery (1747/1805): To Make...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 6, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday – What I Did with Spare Time in Ohio
Last Tuesday, I was somewhere in eastern Ohio. I had access to a car, and nothing to do for eight hours. You got it – it was Lincoln...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 1, 20121 min read
Mid-Atlantic Material Culture: McKee Crab Baking Dishes
An orange not seen in nature. Hence the “Distinction, Sanitation, Satisfaction.” The pamphlet elaborates inside: “Sanitation Without A...
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Becky Fifield
May 31, 20121 min read
Asparagus – Time to Pickle
Photo: Box of Apples.com. Asparagus season is drawing to a close, depending where you live. If you’ve reached your limit of fresh...
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