On a steamy summer morning in 1995, Mitch Sisson’s past returned with a metallic clank, unceremoniously wrapped in a stack of letters and stuffed into the back of his mailbox. A work-day later, he ...

Last month, I published a recipe for “Deer Egg Nog,” a homemade concoction to ward off hungry landscape destructive deer and the dreamed-up elixir from the late master gardener-turned-PBS TV host ...