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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Favorite Cookbooks

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

I’m actually reprinting comments I made on another site, Pesky Apostrophe. The premise: Mac is enamored of another blogger taking up the challenge of cooking Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking cover to cover, and asked for other suggestions.
Christine said:
We have all those fancypants cookbooks out in our kitchen, including Mastering [...]

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Dateline – London

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Sunday evening, Leicester Square, London (WC2H, for those who care). Sipping a cup of coffee in the hotel bar, @pex, and hopping online via one of the open nearby wireless hotspots, since wireless is on the fritz at the hotel. I’ve been up against a dull headache all day – nothing too bad, [...]

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Happiness and coffee

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Sitting in The Hague at the moment – after two bright and beautiful days, today was a bit damp but not nearly as bad as it was back home.
This comic prompted the post. I’ve printed it, put it in a slip cover cut to fit, and may well tape it on the cover of [...]

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