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Got Pumpkin? Make These Cupcakes

Got Pumpkin? Make These Cupcakes

October 30, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Pumpkin, native to North America, is central to our Halloween tradition, Thanksgiving menu, and a fairy tale that involves a glass slipper. The orange orbs…

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Fall for Warm Apple Bread and Cold Milk

Fall for Warm Apple Bread and Cold Milk

October 22, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Just as I overdose on blueberry recipes each summer, in autumn I turn to cooking and baking with apples when they’re in season, plentiful and…

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Magicians Are Dying to Get In

Magicians Are Dying to Get In

October 21, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Most folks wouldn’t brag on their tombstone about their reputation as “America’s Greatest Pickpocket” or “The Magnificent Fraud.” But at Lakeside Cemetery in Colon, a…

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Checking Into Botsford Inn

Checking Into Botsford Inn

October 18, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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While whipping up an applesauce bread found in an old Country Inn Cookbook that includes a recipe from the Botsford Inn, I wondered what was…

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Inn Season: Applesauce Nut Bread

Inn Season: Applesauce Nut Bread

October 18, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Planning a tailgate party or autumn picnic? This quick bread is an easy, light and delish seasonal treat that travels well and is a good way…

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Gaylord: Where the Elk Roam

Gaylord: Where the Elk Roam

October 17, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Michigan is home to one of the largest herds of elk east of the Mississippi, with most of the animals living in the northern Lower…

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Easy, Tree-Mendus Apple Sauce

Easy, Tree-Mendus Apple Sauce

October 17, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Every apple season—in addition to craving fresh pressed cider and warm donuts—I remember a visit we had years ago with Herb Teichman at his family’s…

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Fricano's Pizza. Period.

Fricano’s Pizza. Period.

October 17, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Talk about keeping it simple. Fricano’s Muskegon Lake serves pizza. Period. And it’s a pizza unlike any I’ve ever had. Thin crust doesn’t begin to describe it….

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The Civil War and the Home Front

The Civil War and the Home Front

October 4, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Chicago’s Newberry Library is presenting a different view of the U.S. Civil War as it commemorates the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States in…

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Mummu's Apple Cake

Mummu’s Apple Cake

October 2, 2013
Kath Usitalo
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Mummu is an informal Finnish word for Grandmother, and this recipe appeared in a cookbook printed in 1991 by the Finnish Center Association in Farmington…

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