WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, my mother did a ton of needlework. She’s a master seamstress, quilter, you name it, and for a time, she taught a group of Seventh Day Adventist missionaries how to make cloth dolls for children in Central America. How they hooked up, neither she nor I can remember, but as a result, we spent some time hanging out in the Seventh Day Adventist community. The thing that made the biggest impression (I was 6, remember) was that they were vegetarians. Maybe that’s what made my recent find of the Benton sisters’ cookbook speak to me as it does. [click to continue…]
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First time here? Here's the idea: 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
