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Judith Newton
Columnist - August 19, 2012 in Bloggers, Travel, Uncategorized
A Santa Fe state of mind
It is late afternoon on our last day in Santa Fe, and our reunion suppers with old friends have come to an end. We have packed, tidied our rented casita, and have made one last walk to the downtown plaza. It is 4:30, too late...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - July 22, 2012 in Bloggers, Food, Uncategorized
On why I wrote a memoir about food
(from The Joys of Cooking: A Love Story, forthcoming with She Writes Press) Prologue: (Kensington, California, 2009) It started with the cookbooks. In January 2009, having been married for six months, I moved with my husband, Bill, from the large house we’d been renting in...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - June 24, 2012 in Bloggers, Food, Travel, Uncategorized
Eating Norwegian
by Judith Newton My husband Bill and I sit in a wood-beamed, wood-paneled restaurant in Bergen Norway. To Kokker (Two Cooks) is tucked away down a dark and impossibly narrow alley constructed of thick wooden planks from the 16th century, one of the few parts...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - May 6, 2012 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
Squirrels in paradise
Oh, Hell! What doe mine eyes with grief behold . . . ? John Milton, Paradise Lost I started a garden last spring. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I hired Sara from all edibles to start the garden. She double-dug and amended an eight-by-twenty foot...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - March 25, 2012 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
Without him
by Judith Newton From The Joys of Cooking: A Love Story On a January morning, a month-and-a-half after my gay ex-husband’s death, I entered his tidy, book-lined study to deal with his effects. Sitting on the floor, surrounded by files and papers I had taken...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - February 12, 2012 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
Our vegetable love
by Judith Newton From The Joys of Cooking: A Love Story Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime / . . . My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow. — Andrew Marvell, “To...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - January 22, 2012 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
“The Trip”: Mid-life crisis and “modernist cuisine”
by Judith Newton (First published in The Redwood Coast Review, Winter 2012.) In an act of utter haplessness last weekend I scratched my cornea with the tip of an agave and had to lie in a darkened room, which is how I ended up watching...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - November 27, 2011 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
On Thanksgivings, I am grateful for my gay ex-husband
by Judith Newton On Thanksgivings, as I wash the bubble of a wine glass or polish the forks from my mother’s wedding silver, I think of my gay ex-husband and am grateful. We lived together for some twenty years, inventing and reinventing what it meant...
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Judith Newton
Columnist - October 9, 2011 in Bloggers, Uncategorized
Shrimp and grits: A ghost story
by Judith Newton “Cuisine is the tactile connection we have to breathing history.” Clifford Wright, A Mediterranean Feast I sat with my daughter, Anna, and my husband, Bill, in the Rosebud Restaurant in Atlanta (the city where my daughter is doing graduate work in Public...
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