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KARACOOKS
KARACOOKS
Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • A large glass bowl of Carol's potato salad, pale gold with flecks of celery and onion, dusted with paprika-orange Lawry's Seasoned Salt across the top.

    Carol’s Potato Salad

    ByKara June 2June 2 Recipes, Personal

    Carol’s potato salad is mayo, mustard, yellow onion, celery, and dill relish dressed on hot potatoes. No secrets. Just muscle memory and good timing.

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  • A picture from the 1960s. It's a child's playground two seat swing. On the left side is a woman in a blue dress with dark hair, her head thrown back while she's laughing. On the right side is a man in an Air Force uniform with his cap pulled low over his eyes. He's holding a beer in his left hand and smiling.

    What My Mother Taught Me About Cooking (And About Being Fearless)

    ByKara January 21May 16 Cooking, Personal

    She was fearless in a way I didn’t fully appreciate until I was older …

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  • Chesapeake Bay & Charleston  – Vacation

    Chesapeake Bay & Charleston – Vacation

    ByKara September 29May 16 Recipes, Travel

    I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…

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