Clare Kleinedler
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I love the simplicity of your garden dinner - oysters, sausages, cherry tomatoes. I think in America, people always feel like they have to make elaborate dishes or a big centerpiece main course and I love how most Europeans embrace simple things, such as a great roast chicken and new potatoes. I sometimes get caught up in "making" dishes myself, and this photo was a good reminder that often the best and most delicious foods are the simpliest.
jo ann stoddard
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David - you’ve answered a vexing question!! On my first (of five so far) trips to Ireland with friends, July 1990, at the end of the trip one of us inquired about corned beef & cabbage and why we’d not seen it on the menu anywhere, was it just a family dish. Well, we ended up with 3 different waitresses trying to figure out what we were asking about, they volunteered “boiled bacon” as an idea - and we were left thinking it was just an upgrade the Irish immigrants had been able to find. One of us said: but 17million Americans eat it every day on St Patrick’s Day!! I’ve told this to many friends since then, and now I know: Kosher butchers! Thank you - mystery solved!