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<\/a>toasty bagels in the bliss of guilty pleasure that is cream cheese and then nestle in wispy curls of paper thin sweet red onion, generously punctuate with polka dots of smoky, briny capers and then luxuriate with opalescent slabs of creamy, salty Scottish-style smoked salmon.<\/p>\nOne small, sweet tomato sliced pole to pole into quarters and then half again\u2014kissed with freshly cracked sea salt and black pepper to finish.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, I\u2019m transported to warmth and welcome of the teeny tiny dining room at the Machipongo Trading Company across the table from my dear friend, Mina Savage Turner.<\/p>\n
In just one bite\u2014I\u2019m on the Eastern Shore of Virginia<\/p>\n
In just one bite…I am home.<\/p>\n
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Sunday mornings usually spent with a dear friend… If you can\u2019t be there\u2014you can eat there! A journey\u2019s recipe: Smother crispy, chewy, yeasty, toasty bagels in the bliss of guilty pleasure that is cream cheese and then nestle in wispy curls of paper thin sweet red onion, generously punctuate with polka dots of smoky, briny […]<\/p>\n
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