the other day, a gardener around the corner from my house was giving away a big sack of lemons, so naturally we grabbed ‘em! just the smell of them was heaven. now normally, lemons — i’d make lemonade, but some friends had been telling me how easy it was to make preserved lemons, so i decided this morning before i started blogging i was going to do just that.... 
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Last Tuesday night I drove over the Bay Bridge to help a friend. She had a problem that was unique to folks in California, I suppose: she was over-run with lemons. The lemon tree in her backyard was full, the branches drooping from all the orange-tinged and sweetly scented Meyer lemons hanging in its leaves. The idea of all that fruit going to waste broke her heart. So she... 
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