I first read Yossy Arefi’s cookbook Snacking Cakes while our family was camping out at my mother-in-law’s house so that the furnace at our house could be replaced. It was winter, and very cold outside, and inside we were cozy, but we were all thrown for a loop by the displacement. I was reading theContinue reading “Review: Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings”
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Review: Jenny Robertson’s Hoist House
In underground mining, a hoist is the machinery that makes possible the movement from the aboveground world to the world below. Some hoists were once powered by steam; now they are all electric. The world’s largest steam hoisting engine is housed in northern Michigan, and the shaft hoist house itself appears on the state andContinue reading “Review: Jenny Robertson’s Hoist House”