Category: Musings – Yvonne Cornell

Italian Gnochetti Soup

December 12, 2016 · Flour+Salt, Stock+Broth, Feathers, Musings

My mother was the 1954 summer Cover Girl for County Line, a Monmouth New Jersey magazine. As a 1st generation Italian, Mariana Elvira Lucia Siciliano did not have the female look that was popular in…

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Montana Homestead

September 8, 2016 · Musings, Art+Nature

The lure of a cabin in the woods or a remote seaside cottage has always captivated me. My craving for proximity to wild nature and simple living often takes me to parts unknown, whether in my mind’s…

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Turkey Soup for the Soul

May 23, 2016 · Musings, Stock+Broth, Feathers

American chef and food activist, Alice Waters says, "the best way to create caring, compassionate, peaceful communities, is to bring people together around food." The folklore of "Stone Soup" reminds…

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Cooking with Pao-Pao

March 30, 2016 · Feathers, Musings

The food heritage of one's grandparents is a cultural birthright. Independent filmmaker Kevin Longa embraces his good fortune by cooking and eating with his beloved 97 year-old grandmother whom he…

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Curating Buttons: The Lore of the Artisan

March 7, 2016 · Design, Musings, Art+Nature, Vintage

An artisan's back story fascinates me. In particular, the ones that are unlikely, quirky or unexpected. There's an artist in France, a son who cared for his ailing father until his death when the son…

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What is your Why?

January 25, 2016 · Musings, Vintage, Cakes+Crumbs, Art+Nature, Botanicals, Citrus, Oh Nuts!, Salt+Spice

(recipe for the featured Pizza Cioccolato is at the end of this post.) The turning over of a new year begets a seasonal soul searching. What is my direction? Where are my passions taking me? What…

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A Trio

November 6, 2015 · Musings, Botanicals, Art+Nature

Three is my favorite number. It's an odd number that creates a perfectly even balance. A trifecta, a trio, a trilogy. Metamorphosis © Yvonne Cornell, 2012 Originally posted as Botanical…

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persistence is omnipotent

October 5, 2015 · Musings

  Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a…

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Why Not?

August 6, 2015 · Flour+Salt, Musings, Berries+Drupes

Many of us plod along through life asking ourselves lots of WHYS? Why this school? Why that career? Why move? Consider this: the question WHY might be standing in the way of the adventures of a…

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