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- Wednesday Reading List #4
Editorial Assistant Brodsky disapproving of this week’s selections.
When Paul Krugman isn’t writing for the New York Times or winning the Nobel Prize for Economics, he’s analysing “how English food got to be so bad“.
I have been enjoying the hand-written recipe cards of a Malaysian cook named Nice (”pronounced as in ‘you are such a nice […]
- Wednesday Reading List #3
Improbable boutique in Barcelona. It still kills me that I encountered this store on a Sunday, and never got to see what was inside.
Beat my score of 8/10 on the Guardian’s highly enjoyable literary food quiz. (Among the multiple-choice questions: “A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown […]
- Wednesday Reading List #2
Apologies for the shoddy composition and styling, but I’m not sure these guys deserve any better.
First, a PSA: Trader Joe’s freeze-dried mangosteen–don’t eat it. Alerted to the product’s existence by a commenter on my recent mangosteen post, I visited Brooklyn’s brand-new TJ specifically to buy it. It has an odd, airy texture, sort of like […]
- Wednesday Reading List #1
Until the New York Times dining section moves away from Anglo-flavored home cooking chronicles and paeans to locasnores (”this baking powder has so much terroir“), I’ll be compiling a weekly list of bits and bobs I’ve enjoyed in the past seven days.
