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Sugar, Brown Sugar, Butter, Cinnamon, Flour: At 5, and at 25

By allison | Published: June 30, 2009
Crumb cake. My mom always used to have this crumbly, powdered sugar or drizzled sugar covered pastry fresh from the local bakery. I used to analyze the layers, cake, swirls of cinnamon, topped with tiny knobs of brown sugar rolled in butter. The soft cake and the crunch of the oh-so-bad-for-you mixture. I would always [...]
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How Beach Culture and Italian Ice Relate

By Allison | Published: July 23, 2008
I’m down in my parents’ neck of the woods these past two days, and always I’m so torn between the food we go out to eat and the choices we make to get dessert afterwards.  After having a tilapia meal that bordered on gluttony (slightly fried, stuffed with spinach and ricotta, drowned in a cream [...]
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