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I’ve never been very enthusiastic about houseplants, by which I mean those species of plants meant to live indoors indefinitely.  It’s just a matter of personal taste, of course, but, aside from in places like sunrooms, atriums and grottoes (none of which I have), I prefer changing displays of cut flowers and greens. Cut flowers, [...]

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It’s cold in New York this week.  Really cold.  Cocoa weather.  Ironically, I learned to make good cocoa in sunny California.  During my first year in law school at Berkeley, I rented rooms from a wonderfully eccentric Dutch artist.  One rare chilly day when I was hunkered down studying for my exams, she taught me [...]

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