{"id":12,"date":"2008-09-01T21:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.wordpress.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T13:52:26","slug":"about-tinky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About this blog: New England Country Cooking with Tinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; text-shadow: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/hugging-her-baby-web1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14\" src=\"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/hugging-her-baby-web1.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hugging-her-baby-web1.jpg 369w, https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hugging-her-baby-web1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I\u2019m \u00a0Tinky&#8211;a writer, cook, and chanteuse living in the wilds (or maybe the tames) of western Massachusetts. A few years ago I wrote <em>The Pudding Hollow Cookbook<\/em>, a culinary portrait of my hilltown region.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">In the pages of this blog I share my food-related perigrinations throughout New England and beyond\u2014plus a few recipes I\u2019m making as the seasons roll around.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I believe in food that speaks of tradition (thus \u201cour grandmothers\u2019 kitchens,\u201d since most good cooks learned their craft at their parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 knees), that doesn\u2019t take a lot of work, and that evokes a sense of place.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">My oval kitchen table (which came to me from my grandmother) is the place at which I share my life and my food with friends and neighbors. I hope this forum will increase those friends and neighbors as it evolves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">If you\u2019d like to learn more about me, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TinkyCooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">my web site<\/a>. (I love it when people buy my books!) <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin: 0;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: &quot;;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin: 0;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: &quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2075\" title=\"tarmsweb\" src=\"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/tarmsweb.jpg\" alt=\"tarmsweb\" width=\"432\" height=\"293\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I\u2019m \u00a0Tinky&#8211;a writer, cook, and chanteuse living in the wilds (or maybe the tames) of western Massachusetts. 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