Joining the club: Seattlest
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Sometimes details escape me, such as when I’m engaged in heated battle with a virus. For example, I have—until today—completely forgotten to...
The semantics of stewing
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In the English language, there are only a handful of phrases that come with their own built-in laugh track, and sadly, “stewed prunes” is on...
A state of melt
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The last time I was this sick was 12 years ago, during the Christmas holidays of my freshman year of high school. Though my memories of the ...
Going steady
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Every kitchen has its strong, silent staples. I’ve certainly got my stockpile of oils and vinegars, condiments, rice, pasta, beans, butter, ...
Sog Story
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I am, dear reader, a bread snob. I’m a harsh critic of crust and crumb, a stickler for sourdough, and very, very picky about my pain au leva...
If it’s Friday, it must be eggs-and-beer night
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It was a Friday night, and you know what that means: good Catholics won’t eat meat; Shabbat-savvy Jews won’t sow, plow, reap, grind, sift, k...
How I hit the hard-ball stage
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A couple of well-meaning readers have recently inquired into the foundations of my relationship with food, or, more succinctly, the origins ...
An interlude, or what happens when she digs in her archives
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Last week I was tagged—not once, but twice—for the 23rd-post-5th-sentence meme, a nifty little game that would have me dig into my archives,...