I am not a cook, and I don’t aspire to be one. But like many of us cooped up at home, I have cooked more than usual this past year. One of my discoveries this year has been Irish soda bread. Although I am part Irish, and my mother always […]
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Memories of Green and Orange on St. Patrick’s Day
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate many minor holidays. Except St. Patrick’s Day. My mother made sure we celebrated that. My maternal grandmother (Nanny Winnie) was half Irish and half Scotch. My Irish great-grandmother, Cecelia Ryan, died well before my mother […]
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