Coffee freshness tips from Peets Coffee and Tea
New York AP reports coffee perishes like produce. Roasted beans peak 24 to 72 hours, whole roasted beans keep up to four weeks, ground coffee 1 to 2 weeks. Store in cool dark dry place in airtight containers, away from strong aromas. Check aroma and foam when pressed to judge freshness.
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New York
Peet’s Coffee and Tea
Nuzzo couple foil roving robins with shoes
East Side residents Tony and Margaret Nuzzo tried stuffing two shoes into a porch nest space to deter robins. The birds instead built a nest in a shoe, leaving an empty nest relocated to another porch spot while awaiting hatching. Children’s HopeChest supports Russian orphans.
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Tony
Margaret Nuzzo
Friendship Street
Nuzzos
Derby Day Delicacies Highlight Louisville Food Traditions
Derby Day Delicacies explores Kentucky hospitality and Derby week rituals in Louisville including mint juleps, the Derby Festival, and a two week celebration around Churchill Downs. It details country ham preparation from soaking to roasting and a Coke baked ham method, plus menu items like frittata and green bean salad, with a bourbon talk and cultural festival notes.
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Kentucky Blue Bloods
Lexington
Louisville
Churchill Downs
Jenine Sahadi
Kentucky
Richard Taylor
Poe
Cousin Mony
Cousin Lucy
Garbon
Wimbledon
Junior League of Louisville, Inc
Bible
Scribner
Creamy Gruyere Grits and Cheesy Biscuits Duo
A two item recipe feature describing a Gruyere grits dish baked until set with Parmesan and a pepper kick, plus cheddar jack parmesan drop biscuits. Ingredients include milk butter grits Gruyere and red pepper sauce for the grits and flour sugar baking powder soda salt butter shredded cheeses buttermilk for the biscuits. The grits bake 15 to 30 minutes broil briefly. biscuits bake 16 minutes until golden and serve warm.
Triple Turf Pie Recipe Card
A rich pie with a cinnamon scented crust and a bourbon chocolate pecan filling. The pastry blends flour sugar cinnamon butter egg and vanilla, chilled, rolled, and baked. Filling combines butter flour eggs sugar bourbon or vanilla, then chocolate chips and pecans folded in and baked thirty minutes. Garnish with mint and serve with whipped cream or ice cream. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Displaying antique costume jewelry in a velvet frame
A Boston Globe style tip explains framing costume jewelry on velvet in a picture frame with Homasote backing. Secure the velvet, staple edges, and hang pieces with decorative hooks or pearl pins for a neat, gallery like display.
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Amy Salant
Brooklyn
N.Y
Martha Stewart
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