Jill Colella

This recipe is featured in Quaker Recipes in 1821 Reflected a Multitude of Cultures Pepper and parsnips in a dessert? This warm spicy cake is nothing more than a variation on carrot cake and the Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting is more than just sweet — it has deep and nutty flavor. *To toast the walnuts, warm them in a 177° C (350° F) oven for 7 to 10 minutes, until you can smell their fragrance.

As I’m walking through the heavily-boughed, green-scented lane from one pasture to another, tendrils of vine reach down from unapproachable heights. A few short steps later they find their target – my hair, bound into a ponytail. I stop, crouch in a defensive posture, and stammer out “ow ow ow” until I’m freed and able to exact my revenge: the purloining of a fist-full of fat, sweet-sour berries from my attacker. Nonetheless, the blackberries continue to grow with impunity.

That we live in an ever-changing world is quite obvious in the way we communicate with one another. With the advent of email, technology has given us the gift of instant gratification – or is it really a gift? It seems that the speed and convenience of emails may be at the root of many professional blunders. In fact, I sometimes get the feeling that professionalism in the workplace is going the way of the Twinkie – threatened with extinction. Please, if we’ve never met, address me as Ms. White.