Passing the salad bar
Salad comes from sal, as in salt. Once, salad meant greens seasoned with salt. Which remains a good recipe. Rub salt into a heap of kale or red-leaf, and the...
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Passing the salad bar
Salad comes from sal, as in salt. Once, salad meant greens seasoned with salt. Which remains a good recipe. Rub salt into a heap of kale or red-leaf, and the...
The affable care act
Pie season approaches, and I've been designing an emergency pie clinic. Just as I was sketching out the ambulance bay and the triage wing and the surgery suite, I crumpled...
The affable care act
Pie season approaches, and I've been designing an emergency pie clinic. Just as I was sketching out the ambulance bay and the triage wing and the surgery suite, I crumpled...
Frittering away a fall afternoon
Fritters fritter away so little time. Thirty minutes to prep. Two minutes to crisp. One to munch. Thirty-three minutes isn't frittering. That's practically staying on task. There are more effective...
Frittering away a fall afternoon
Fritters fritter away so little time. Thirty minutes to prep. Two minutes to crisp. One to munch. Thirty-three minutes isn't frittering. That's practically staying on task. There are more effective...
Hominy’s haunting appeal
The costume can turn the friendly fearsome. Consider spaghetti: Kind, plain and eager to please. Unless it's huddled in the dark, posing as the haunted-house bowl of brains. Then it's...
Updating the laws of physics and figs
The fig is familiar to every child in its elemental form: Newton. Not Newton, the physicist, who figured out that fruit + gravity = bonk. Newton, as in Newton, Mass.,...
Updating the laws of physics and figs
The fig is familiar to every child in its elemental form: Newton. Not Newton, the physicist, who figured out that fruit + gravity = bonk. Newton, as in Newton, Mass.,...
Stockpiling flavors of fall for endurance
Marathon season has arrived and training is intense in my backyard. The competitors — squirrels — dash through their workouts. Run. Leap. Skitter. Flatten. Peer. Sprint. Fueled by carbo hoarding....