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Friday, January 6, 2012

Let's Lunch: Low-Concept Vegetarian Chili

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(This is a slightly modified repost of an earlier piece) Anyone who has ever shared a meal with me knows I’m relentlessly curious...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

New Year's Hot Pot: Party Food for Homebodies

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(A slightly different version of this piece was published last year in Salon.com .) If life were fair or logical at all, I should have...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

A Plumber Makes Pasta for Poets

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(A slightly different version of this piece appeared in my Open Salon blog .) I was raised to believe that it was the height of ruden...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Eating Butterflies: Festive Treats for Ordinary Days

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It used to crack me up how people on TV and in magazines portrayed “four-course banquets” as the very height of festivity and luxury. I w...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

An (Almost) All-American Thanksgiving (or, What to Eat the Morning After)

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(This post originally appeared on my Open Salon blog last year. A slightly different version was published on Salon.com .) Ungrateful whini...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

A Tiger Mom’s Daughter Makes Popcorn

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I’ve had this brilliant idea bouncing around for a while: flavored popcorn. But not just plain old cheese-flavored popcorn or kettle corn – ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Pleasures of PBS (and a Defense of Monkey Gland Steak)

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Not having cable is liberating. It gives me a perfect excuse not to keep up with the Kardashians or any of the other irritating presences ho...
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