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A season for cider

Farnum Hill Semi-dry cider was my choice for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, and it was a great pairing to our harvest feast.

first bloom of the coffee plants

There are a couple of blossoms I could write about all the time, our twins, but I

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japanese knotweed

There are very few empty lots, roadsides or poorly kept yards that don’t have Japanese knotweed growing in them. This weed

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grilled pound cake with "cherries on the bone" (photos courtesy of Christian Kahle)

It’s grilling time again and here at Vivo we take

This variation on the classic linzer torte recipe was made with local–"yinzer"–quince!

This is my second winter in Pittsburgh, and like many new

The lemon (Citrus limon) is a small, yellow rounded fruit, pointed at its ends, with acidic juice. The origin of the lemon is unknown,