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SUSAN WELSH

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Mar 31
2 min

Tomboys & Antenna TV

There are a ton of things I’m looking forward to once the world opens up again. Travel, for instance. Paris and Barcelona are on the...

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Susan Welsh

Mar 10
2 min

Bar Cart Briefs: BITTERS

In 1919 US Congress ratified the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. That same year, in...

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Susan Welsh

Feb 26
2 min

Celebrated Leap Frogs

One winter’s night in the mid 70's my parents and I took the journey along a narrow, twisting road overlooking the Delaware River to the...

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Susan Welsh

Feb 10
2 min

Bar Cart Brief: The Classics

Book carts and bar carts—these are a few of my favorite things. For decades, when I walked into Farley's bookstore I would head straight...

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Susan Welsh

Jan 20
2 min

An Inauguration Toast

On January 20, 1961, my grandfather attended the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as the 35th president of the United States....

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Susan Welsh

Jan 13
2 min

KISS TODAY GOODBYE

2020 was supposed to be a very good year. There was a trip planned to Italy—an adventure that was to begin in Rome, where I still dream...

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Susan Welsh

Jan 13
2 min

Kiss Today Goodbye

2020 was supposed to be a very good year. There was a trip planned to Italy—an adventure that was to begin in Rome, where I still dream...

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Susan Welsh

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

From Here to Epernay

Among the possessions my dad left behind when he died—the photos and letters and books— it’s Frank Schoonmaker’s Encyclopedia of Wine...

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Susan Welsh

Sep 10, 2020
3 min

Little Shop of Terroir

Our family wine shop, like many older establishments that are part of a town’s tapestry, represented the history and stories of its...

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Susan Welsh

Aug 7, 2020
3 min

seashore & folklore

Why leave the beach when the cream puff bar can come to you? Last week we found ourselves in such a lucky position, savoring the roar of...

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Susan Welsh

Jul 24, 2020
2 min

My Salad Days

It's likely, the salad bar will permanently go the way of the dinosaur post-pandemic. I've never been much of a fan of this self-serve...

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Susan Welsh

Jun 17, 2020
2 min

Fathers, Aunts, & Emperors of Ice Cream

Summer, 2020. Here's to a season of uncertainty, drive-through graduation ceremonies, face masks, sanitizers, and daily pandemic news,...

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Susan Welsh

May 20, 2020
2 min

1,001 Days of Solitude

For what feels like 1,001 days and nights of social-isolation, an interesting phenomenon has emerged in our household—my wife and I have...

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BREAD The staff of life, the mitigator of sorrows. . .

Susan Welsh

Apr 24, 2020
2 min

BREAD The staff of life, the mitigator of sorrows. . .

As long as there are bread and wine, we will be fine. That's what I keep telling myself. But there's so much more that we miss as the...

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Susan Welsh

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

Self-isolation and survival food

My friend Amy has put up several cans of Underwood Deviled Ham in her pantry to get through this pandemic. The paper-wrapped can with the...

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Susan Welsh

Mar 25, 2020
2 min

Pantry Envy

Like many of you, I'm spending more time in the pantry—trying to maintain reasonable stock and utilize culinary creativity with canned...

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Susan Welsh

Mar 20, 2020
2 min

Strange Days Indeed

This week I am roasting tomatoes, still eating the cupcakes I baked for Steph's birthday and, like all of you, trying to stay positive...

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Susan Welsh

Mar 11, 2020
2 min

Ancestry.Carb

Now that ancestry.com has confirmed my predominantly Slovak heritage, I feel comfortable claiming that my DNA is culturally predisposed...

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Susan Welsh

Mar 7, 2020
2 min

Of Apricots, Arks & "Proustian Moments"

The apricot is an intense memory trigger for me. On the rare occasion when I can find a fresh orchard apricot, before even taking that...

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By Susan Welsh

Feb 26, 2020
2 min

When Life Hands You Lemon Orchards

With our return trip to Italy mere months away, visions of the lemon-scented, sun-drenched Amalfi Coast have begun to permeate my...

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