The Honey Had Opinions
Forty-five minutes. That's how long it took me to make a soup I have made, conservatively, two dozen times. The delay was not the squash, the squash cooperated beautifully. The de…
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Both Casualties
Saturday afternoon and Simone brought the groceries in through the door already talking, which is how most of our kitchen sessions start, some fact she picked up mid-week that nee…
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The Jar Had a Point
June first. The jar was not going to open. I want to be clear about this: I tried the twist, I tried the hot water on the lid, I tried the rubber grip pad that lives in the second…
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The Jar Had Opinions
July twenty-eighth. Three weeks ago I started a sourdough starter. I want to be precise about the sequence: I did not decide to bake sourdough bread and then research how starters…
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The Skimming Debate
May twenty-sixth. The soup was Simone's idea, technically. She mentioned it at the end of Tuesday's session, something about a chicken stock she'd made that week, the bones from a…
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Ninety Minutes and a Cold Pot
My mom called at like six-fifteen, which is peak dinner-assembly hour in this apartment if I'm being honest with myself about my ambitions as a cook. I had been doing something wi…
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