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- Saturday, November 05, 2011
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Baby hats, 2003-2011 Hats knit by Kim, since 2003
Posted by CD • 2:23pm
A collection of baby hats and other knitting projects by Kim Davaz over the last few years.
- Wednesday, December 02, 2009
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Table for one
Posted by Kim Davaz • 6:08pm
Table for one By Kim Davaz While in college, I once worked with a young woman who had majored in home economics. Every night, she told me, she made a complete meal that she ate sitting at a nicely set table. All by herself. I was very impressed that she considered such niceties to be essential. Fifty-one percent of the people living in New York City live alone, according to Judith Jones in her latest cookbook, “The Pleasures of Cooking for One.” Cooking for one is not a chore, Jones insists, but a pleasure. In addition to cooking meals on ordinary…
- Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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French confection
Posted by Kim Davaz • 12:31pm
COTTAGE GROVE - As the door to Fleur De Lis Patisserie & Cafe opens at 7 a.m., the welcoming aroma of baked pastries is almost visible. A mural by Springfield artist Janeile Emery shows a display of pastries with Paris’ cathedral of Notre Dame in the background. A song by Stevie Wonder fades into the voice of a male radio announcer speaking French. How appropriate that a Paris pop music station from the Internet supplies the background music at Fleur De Lis. Baker Eric Jegat has been at work since before night owls go to bed, sliding trays of croissants into…
- Wednesday, August 18, 2004
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The Ultimate Chef Julia Child's death was like losing a friend
Posted by Kim Davaz • 6:45pm
By Kim Davaz My sister called to tell me that Julia Child had died. I felt I’d lost a friend, knowing her through the familiarity that comes from years of seeing someone in your living room, albeit on television. Child cooked on TV for almost 50 years. And while her body slowly bowed over time, her voice retained its distinctive, enchanting warble, closing each episode with a cheery, “Bon appetit!” From the first time I saw Child on public television’s “The French Chef” - tall, confident, cooking her way through all manner of foods exotic to a girl in elementary school…
- Saturday, September 01, 1984
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Montana Wilderness: Discovering the Heritage Photographs from the book "Montana Wilderness: Discovering the Heritage" | By Steve Woodruff and Don Schwennesen, Photographs by Carl Davaz (1984)
Posted by CD • 9:27pm
A delicate garden of mushrooms and lichens fourishes on a crumbling log, Welcome Creek Wilderness, Montana, 1984.
