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Here at The Recipe Club, it’s safe to say we all love (and I mean seriously LOVE) food. We started to think, “what makes certain foods so special to us?” So many of our most precious food memories stem from childhood, and so many of those childhood memories come straight from mom. So cheers to moms all over the world – each dish you made, each time we ate your breakfasts/lunches/dinners, and each time we spent time with you in the kitchen, made a lasting impact on us for the rest of our lives. Happy Mother’s Day!

Stories and photos from the photo shoot for True Brews, out May 2013, are shared by the author, Emma Christensen.

Here’s the latest installment of our brand-new feature on The Recipe Club: What’s In Season, a fresh way to take the fruits and vegetables just reaching your farmer’s market and put them to use with recipes from our new cookbooks. With the cold snap this week, it seems wrong to leave the winter ingredients behind in search of fresher, greener spring veggies. So in this last brush with chilly weather, take advantage of the still-delicious grapefruits in your kitchen with this recipe for Chaud Froid de Pamplemousse au Romarin from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef (Ten Speed Press, 2011).

While paging through The Homemade Pantry, these Oreo-like cookies immediately caught my eye. I happened to have all of the ingredients in the house, so I took out my mixer and started baking right away!

Last fall, my Clarkson Potter co-workers and I went on a fascinating, educational, fun and delicious foraging field trip with the author of Foraged Flavor, Tama Matsuoka Wong. She took us on a guided journey of her expansive backyard and foraging garden, and showed us what we could pick, what it was, and how we could eat or prepare it.