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- 87/100
When I was eight years old, I received my first-ever chain letter. In pen and ink–remember those? This was long before e-mail, before a single click of the mouse was all it took to pass on a joke/personality test/falsely attributed homily/patently ridiculous scare letter to every person you’ve ever corresponded with. Back then, chain letters […]
- Banana Cream Pie For Two
I didn’t blog about the last banana cream pie I made–this was maybe three weeks ago–because I threw it in the trash to make a point. Only I was so busy making my point that I didn’t even notice that the intended witness to this point-to-end-all-points had left the room. I spent twenty minutes cleaning […]
- Farewell-To-Summer Salad
Maybe I’m being melodramatic: summer isn’t about to leave us just yet. Still, I no longer need air conditioning to fall asleep, and the window for photographing food by daylight grows briefer by the day. I comfort myself with thoughts of knee-high boots and Brussels sprouts, and get my fix of refreshing foods while I […]
- Three Hideous Birds
1. This is a chaud-froid, which means “hot-cold”. The name does not refer, as one might imagine, to the sorts of shivers one might experience on being confronted with such a dish, but to its preparation: cooked hot and served cold. It is a very old dish, rarely seen today, except at banquets planned by […]
