Evan Kleiman,
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Icy Melon Refresher

  It's hot.  You're miserable.  You have a beautifully ripe market melon that you've been too lazy to eat.  You long for anything that will sate your thirst and cool you down but you want to expend as little energy as possible.  Here's what you do: Peel

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Barb's Butter Crust

Barb’s Butter Crust

This recipe is from my friend Barbara Swell.  I first "met" Barbara when I bought her book The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy, a sweet little paperback manual that first summer seven years ago when I was making a pie a day all summer.

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apple pie unbaked

Evan’s Basic Apple Pie

If apples aren’t making a seasonal appearance at the farmers markets I use a mixture of tart, firm, sweet and yielding apples like Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and Pink Lady or Fuji. I love the taste of brown sugar in a pie, but if you

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