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Summer-sweet
Summer-sweet

It’s good to have a goal, and mine is always the ice-cream sandwich.

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Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca

Keeping up with the lingo.

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Fond farewell
Fond farewell

Bitter and sweet.

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A taste for luxury
A taste for luxury

Sicily draws admirers to its seas, sands and sites.

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Empty nesting
Empty nesting

The fledgling travels light. 

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Pro-fiterole
Pro-fiterole

Bad news blasts from every vista.

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Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

The message made me blush.

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Wonder(ful) Bread REVISED!!
Wonder(ful) Bread REVISED!!

Simple and simply delicious.

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Poach not
Poach not

Poaching is a crime.

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Better butter
Better butter

Deep thinkers debate good versus evil.

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Small gardening for a small planet

Locker-room talk gets down and dirty.

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School days
School days

The student begins his studies with the life cycle, as expressed in the tadpole. 

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Knife for hire
Knife for hire

He’s not a fan of vegetables.

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Back to basics
Back to basics

Basic shares much with basement: It’s the bedrock, the beginning, the building block.

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Flat-out famous
Flat-out famous

Sheet pan, meet spotlight.

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In solidarity
In solidarity

Remember Stone Soup? In the tale, a stranger wanders into town, hungry. Locals slam their doors. So the guy makes soup. 

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Easy does it
Easy does it

Cooking used to be a chore. Consider early man, who spent a good five hours running his prey to exhaustion, and then, panting over collapsed antelope, had to ponder Step Two.

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Good taste
Good taste

Ficus is a shrub indigenous to the dorm room, waiting room and boyfriend bedroom. It's unavoidable. Get a boyfriend; endure a ficus.

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Rice without regret
Rice without regret

Rice pilaf sings of hope, of heartbreak, of heedlessness. 

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Peach perfect
Peach perfect

It’s tough on the thesaurus, parenting a pack of antonyms.

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Rising to the occasion
Rising to the occasion

The revolution demands: Rise up. And desks heed the call. Enough of sitting idle, standing still, holding steady at 29 1/2 inches above the carpeting. Now: They rise.

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Delightful by another name
Delightful by another name

Bananas are berries. This dire news comes direct from the internet, at the far end of a night of berry-soaked revelry.

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Farm fresh
Farm fresh

Our farmer girl leaves early and comes home dirty. She brings back the spare clump of radishes, the stray gourd, and bulging bags of mustard greens.

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Crushing it
Crushing it

Ice is genius. The cube is genius. The ice cube is genius times two to the third. No doubt a large number. And yet, the ice enthusiast maintains aspirations.

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Baby steps
Baby steps

"Adulting" can be pronounced two ways: dripping with sarcasm or bristling with scorn. After all, adult is best unadulterated. Either you can hoist a credit score, fix a flat and fold a fitted sheet, or you're not.

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Damn fine cherry pie
Damn fine cherry pie

Remember Twin Peaks? Remember how the surreal murder mystery was populated with surreal characters: the woman who lugged a log, the dwarf dressed in red, the special agent who tape recorded every move and bite? Me neither.

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Essentialism in the freezer
Essentialism in the freezer

Semifreddo means semi-frozen. In a good way.

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Back to the future
Back to the future

Sous vide, in the grip of an online translator, comes out “under empty.”

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The raw and the cooked
The raw and the cooked

Raw is a brilliant state for lettuce, for talent, for truth. Not so much for mushroom.

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Heart to heart
Heart to heart

Flowers, though quiet, have a lot to say. For instance: I’m sorry. I like you. And, at prom: You’re mine.

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