Category: food
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Some cooking tips
In my quest to cook and eat healthier (except when stressed, when I eat Skittles in a gross and shameful quantity), I’ve discovered a few handy ingredient swapping tips. Whole Wheat PastaWhen I first started eating this, I didn’t like it. I thought it tasted dry and had a sort of sandy texture to it. […]
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My Food Shame
One of my most embarrassing confessions: I’ve only just recently eaten an orange. I was sort of famous among my former colleagues for having never actually eaten an orange in my life. If someone in the office was peeling an orange, even if it was in another room, I could smell it and it would […]
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Feeling My Age?
Over the weekend I enjoyed a lovely brunch with a poet friend here in DC (where I got to have aebleskiver-one of the few ethnic treats of my childhood!). Over the course of our meandering conversation, we talked about what it meant to feel old. “I was just thinking recently about how no matter how […]
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What Cooking Teaches Me about Management
Over the past five years or so, I’ve really devoted much of my free time to teaching myself to cook. I’m no chef by any stretch of the imagination and I live in the shadow of my mother, who’s like a gourmet in her own right, but I do all right and I’m committed to […]
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Health Scare in America
I had to see my doctor today. I was looking forward to it because I honestly like him and have had good consultations with him in the past. To give you some background on this, I’ve been having some strange pain and fever lately. The pain is not the worst I’ve ever had—that would be […]
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Birthday
Today is my boyfriend’s birthday. He’s finally turning 30, which means, for a few short weeks, we’re the same age. He’s sad about it, but I figure he’s already so gray it doesn’t matter. His consolation: a feast at Famous Dave’s. If you don’t have Famous Dave’s where you are, I feel real bad for […]
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