My friend J often quotes me when the conversation turns to food. “Anne doesn’t just like to eat,” she says, noting that she actually wrote this down the first time I said it. “She likes to dine.”

It’s true. Whether

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I met a friend for breakfast this morning at the local Country Kitchen Café. I rarely eat there, even though it’s close to my home. There is no fancy coffee; they don’t poach eggs; and they’re open only until 2:30

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It’s against condo regulations, but I’m growing strawberries in a small area bounded by our home on one side and a sidewalk on the other. The plants offer a great ground cover for that flowerbed with the added benefit of

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One of my dearest, long-time friends lives on the other side of the state. In fact, we haven’t lived near each other since 1971 when I moved away from the Detroit area for good. So we’re always looking for ways

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I recently purchased a new set of cookware, after using the previous set of pots and pans for twenty-five years. The old set was a brand name that featured a green ceramic outside, non-stick inside, and glass tops. They came with

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The recipe said it was the best baked ziti ever, and since I found it in a “Cook’s Illustrated” magazine it was sure to have been tested umpteen times before making that claim. “Cook’s” tends to focus on the minutiae,

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The large poster at the end of the beverage aisle caught my eye. It was mounted atop stacks of what looked like plain old water in plastic bottles and said in watery blue capital lettering: Hydrogen Infused Water.

I took

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