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In My Kitchen-PW

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What is PW? Well, PW stands for the Pioneer Woman and she has written a cookbook that is in our catalog now. If you are not familiar with the Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond), she has an award winning blog that showcases her delicious recipes, her family and her life on their ranch in Oklahoma.

The...

Tech Tuesdays: New Video Series at the Library

The library has a new video series - welcome to Tech Tuesdays!

 

You can write a novel this November

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To do great important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time. —Unknown

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

Kickoff Event is 2-3 pm, Saturday, October 31, Millennium Café

The challenge: to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

That’s an average of 1,667 words/day.
 

Writing begins November 1 and ends November 30 .
 

No exceptions.

The history of food - try your hand at some historic recipes

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I've recently become interested in the history of food - why have we eaten certain foods at certain times in our American and world history, and what does it all mean?

Happily, our library carries a number of titles that answer these and other questions.  

In the time before Thanksgiving...

Seed Cake for Halloween

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When I think of Halloween I think of pumpkins and candy and chocolate cake with orange frosting. But in the UK county of Warwickshire people traditionally eat seed cake on Halloween.  We had a request for a recipe for seed cake and we found several. The first one comes from

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