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Monday, February 13, 2012

This Is Not a Valentine’s Dessert

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Let it be proposed that Valentine’s Day is the most unnecessary and overblown of holidays. A day dedicated to the celebration of romanti...
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Friday, February 3, 2012

Let’s Lunch: Tommy’s Chili and Rock n’ Roll Dreams

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It was the dawn of the 80s, and we were hard-rockin’ renegades, living life in the fast lane on the edges of the Los Angeles music scene...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Sweetness and Luck: A Multicultural Cake for Chinese New Year

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Western civilization does New Year’s celebrations all wrong. Western New Year’s celebrations are all about looking back – and Monday...
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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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