By Lois Burpee Eight years of boarding school and college menus, and four years of stretching the dollar-a-day budget, while sharing an apartment with a sister or friend in the depression years, were a culinary vacuum, with one exception. While at Wellesley College, I was introduced to Chinese food. A group of students who had […]
In the middle of writing a non-fiction book on the history of the world’s religions, I despair about finishing before it’s too late. Writing a book requires much more careful thought than I imagined. As much heat as light: preparation, outline, sources, sentence and paragraph structure, etc. It’s true that a plan is crucial. Also, […]
By Lois Burpee “How did you, the wife of David Burpee, become interested in vegetables?” is a question frequently asked me—as though I had become a traitor to my husband and his passion for flowers. I am expected to be a flower expert, especially of marigolds, not vegetables. “I just did” is hardly a satisfactory […]
