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- Mangosteens: Don’t Bother
Of course, if you happen to live in Southeast Asia, do bother. Bother frequently. But I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to America, who has only recently permitted this most elusive of fruits on its shores.
I thirst for mangosteens. When permitted, I glut on them. If I see one, I have to buy it, […]
- Sortes Virgilianae, And A Sandwich
The sortes virgilianae is a form of divination that treats Virgil’s Aeneid as the embodiment of all wisdom. Ask a question, open the book to a random page, and the first words you lay eyes on are supposed to offer profound insight. I first got into this when I was studying Latin in highschool. It […]
- 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 […]
- So You Want To Go To Culinary School
I was the annoying girl who carried a camera in her pocket every single day of culinary school. But even as my classmates made fun of me, they were going to my Flickr account every night after class to see if they’d turned up in my photos. On graduation day, a woman I’d never even […]
