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Putting the Joy Back Into Cooking

Posted on 08/8/2012 by | Rosemary In the House | Comments

Home & Family | Your LifeI think I was born to cook. Ever since I was young, I’ve enjoyed cooking for friends and family. I even catered my own wedding reception for 80 when I was too young to know better. A large 3-tiered lime coconut wedding cake was the piece de resistance. But over the years the joy of cooking became more like the drudgery of cooking due to aching feet and nagging back aches. Hours of standing on an unforgiving stone floor and …

Burning Down the House – Or How Not To

Posted on 06/13/2012 by | Rosemary In the House | Comments

Caregiving | Home & FamilyI don’t know about you, but I am not enamored of the bells and whistles on new stoves these days. Do I really need blower jets for crispier pizza or a new browning gizmo for crème brûlée? What I do need, however, is a stove that won’t burn down the house. I’ve been interested in cooking safety ever since my mother began to have signs of Alzheimer’s. When she was living alone (and not yet diagnosed), I would lay awake …

PROFILE: Robert Egger of DC Central Kitchen

Posted on 01/21/2011 by | Volunteering | Comments

VolunteeringLooking back, it seems like a simple fix. Robert Egger saw lots of hungry people on the streets of Washington, DC. Rather than just handing out food, he wanted to address *why* they were on the streets. He was working in the restaurant business at the time and decided to tap his contacts to address dual needs. Egger blogs, “…while the thought of all that food being tossed irked me. . .I was equally intrigued by the thought that, while …