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Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Most Useless Scale In The World

Sunday, September 27, 2009

I am the proud owner, and avid user, of the best and most useless kitchen scale.
 
This is me, measuring out coffee for the French Press. I weigh out the beans before I grind them to keep it consistent. Normally, I do this in grams – at the left, my Ikea kitchen scale shows the [...]

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The cure for what ails you

Monday, September 21, 2009

It’s no secret, my love affair with pork products. It’s an underappreciated meat that spent years with a bad reputation garnered from night after night of dry, leathery pork chops for dinner – or worse, trichinosis. (For the record, Mom rarely cooked pork chops. And when she did, they were great.) Recently, it’s started to [...]

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Why does nobody cook? A cartoon triptych

Sunday, September 13, 2009

I drew these up in the wake of online discussions about why “nobody cooks anymore”. A few disclaimers at the end.
 
First, I must apologize for a simple French goof; the caption on the first picture should read, “Ceçi n’est pas un poulet”, not “une poulet”. I couldn’t cleanly edit my gaffe out of the [...]

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Morning Rituals

Friday, September 11, 2009

Let’s get something straight up front: I am not a morning person. My son’s school and my own job conspire to get me up somewhere around stupid o’clock in the morning. My morning ritual, then, needs to be something simple that my brain can handle on autopilot. Let’s take a peek:

In the center at [...]

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The purpose of breakfast

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I’m in jury duty today, which means sitting in a big room full of strangers (“my peers”, according to our legal process). This gives me a chance to see how far I can push my iPhone’s capabilities, including a short blog post.
I left the house too early and too quickly to stop and eat breakfast [...]

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