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I really love grapefruit. I really don’t love fennel. Who knew that when you put the two together, you’d get something revelatory? They’re an odd pair, to be sure, but I think my respective love and loathing of each ingredient is even odder. I mean, grapefruit is a really polarizing fruit. Bitter, tart and powerful, [...]
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In an effort to save what little money I have and get back in the kitchen, I’ve been cooking at home a lot lately. Sometimes my relationship with cooking goes through weird phases; make no mistake, I always love to eat, but there will be times — days, or even weeks — where I just [...]
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I’m about a week into dealing with a cold, and this one was particularly nasty not because of the myriad of symptoms one might typically endure, but because it completely zapped me of my energy. Yesterday and today, though, I’ve been feeling like myself again, except for one thing — I just can’t seem to [...]
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I’ve never known my mother to drink a whole lot. A beer here, a margarita there, but as a kid, I can’t recall many instances of her consuming more than one or two beverages in a single sitting. Moreover, it was rare that she ever purchased wine, which would only appear in our refrigerator when [...]
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If you met my grandmother, and asked her whether she loved to cook, I’d doubt she’d launch into a lengthy spiel about her various culinary experiments and jaunts to local farmers markets. In fact, I kind of imagine her giving you a wary eye and then tepidly responding with an “It can be alright,” or [...]
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This last weekend in Tahoe marked the fourth time in my life that I’ve been tubing. The first two times were at Camp Texlake, a Girl Scout camp I only visited for two summers when I was probably 6 and 7. The third time was in the summer of 1997. I was about to enter [...]
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Shrimp boils. My mom and dad loved having these as a weeknight meal. They were quick to put together, fun to eat, and best of all, very easy to clean up. Often, my mother would purchase pounds of shrimp and store them in the freezer, saving them for a day when we wanted a hearty [...]
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Nearly every weekend beginning around the age of 8, my mother would take me to a local Chinese restaurant that served traditional dim sum. For me, growing up in a culture that treated barbecue like haute cuisine, ordering chicken feet salad and shrimp wet noodle off roaming carts was just about the most exotic and [...]
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