England v Pakistan, first Test

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The summer slump (Its a really good thing!)

It began with the Girl Scouts. My love of slump. Of course, back then I didnt know it was slump. But when our troop leader, Mrs. Bailey, showed us how to mix up a dough (from Bisquick, of course) and drop it by tablespoons over bubbling canned apricots in the cast-iron Dutch oven perched precariously over a wood fire, I was fascinated. It seemed so simple. Today, I still make it, but on the ...

Recipe: Stone-Fruit Slump

Slumps can be an easy to fix dessert.

One good culinary tip leads to another

The recent column on mushrooms, plus the fact that local lawns seem to have erupted with them, had