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the Art of Cooking
I remember New Orleans as if from a fever dream. I ran away from home at seventeen, all the way to Bourbon Street. I blamed it on an existential crisis. I still do. Well that and an unholy fear of a …
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This is the beginning of a new series of posts, posts about what we really eat. It is what it sounds like. This is the quick & dirty. The wholesome, the one pot. The clean out the fridge meals. …
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Cooking with nettles, not unlike cooking with offal, always reminds me of a painting of a funeral. Not any painting of a funeral rather just this one painting of a funeral, Gustave Courbet’s Un …
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Hoe Hop Valley Farm’s Chicken brined & battered in Cruze Farm’s buttermilk In the south, fried chicken is like religion, and like religion everyone believes that their way is The One True …
