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By Martina Newhook Posted on July 26, 2020July 27, 2020

Pernell

Comfort Me With Beets is hitting the road wherever social distancing is possible and pandemic restrictions permit. This means my new food obsession is figuring out how to cook great … Continue reading Pernell

Categories: Pernell, StoryTags: Covid-19, food blog, Healthy on the Road, Pleasure Way, project, Road Trip, RV, Travel, USA
By Martina Newhook Posted on May 27, 2020June 15, 2020

The Lonely Hours Before Supper

This essay of mine was previously published in Meat For Tea: The Valley Review in March, 2019. My mother reaches for a small square book with a picture of a … Continue reading The Lonely Hours Before Supper

Categories: StoryTags: body image, calorie counting, genetic testing, lifestyle diseases, memoir, mother daughter relationship, relationship to food, self-respect
By Martina Newhook Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

Why beets? What’s so comforting about them?

Beets weren’t a loved vegetable in our house when I was growing up. They came from a can, their juices staining my mother’s hands. Mom was the only one who’d … Continue reading Why beets? What’s so comforting about them?

Categories: StoryTags: beets, blogging fundamentals, Divorce, food writing

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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger and not wars or love. — MFK Fisher

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