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Category Archives: pleasantries

blood is in the air

Recent reading: Ken Albala’s blood sausage and blood pie and Hank Shaw’s blood pasta.
I’ve been eating a lot of blood oranges as has my young daughter, who is less dainty about it and thus necessarily gives rise to jokes in my presence. I am looking forward to being home and having access to whole [...]

they would [maple] sugar but for so much boiling

in San Francisco

Harold McGee, who I believe hates food, also would dethrone olive oil

the end of my food specialness

Flaubert to Maupassant on Mental & Moral Hygene

The best time to kill flies