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The time? Summer, 2003. The place? New York City. The local wisdom that shakes me by the shoulders to this day? “Stop looking up, it’s a...
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Alexx
- Nov 10, 2018
- 4 min
When Words Fall Short (Apple Pie)
“And this, what does this mean? ‘Flipping,’ I thought I understood, but not in this sentence.” My neighbor Genevieve slid the English...
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Alexx
- Oct 15, 2018
- 6 min
Trust Paris (Macarons)
Paris. Is there any place in the world more dreamed of, more longed for, more romanticized? Hemingway claimed that if you’re lucky enough...
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Alexx
- Sep 10, 2018
- 3 min
Rosh Hashanah (Apple Cake)
This time last year, I was discovering a little pocket of Israel just miles from my home in Charleston, SC. Upon learning that half my...
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Alexx
- Jul 29, 2018
- 4 min
It's your second night in Provence (Clafoutis)
So you bake Julia Child's clafoutis (because let's be real, on your first night you couldn't stop sleeping). Sometimes the best thing you...
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