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• America, animals, fish, less food-related, musings, travel

  One small step for man

  06.30.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Physics has never been my forte (ditto with anything numerical or scientific), but one thing I do recall from my high school Intro to Physics class is the general idea of the Theory of Relativity. Basically that someone traveling the speed of light for a certain amount of time will age slower than a stationary [...]

  

• America, entrees, less food-related, out and about

  It’s All Greek to Me

  10.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  You know how local newspapers have sections dedicated to things that are happening in your area? Things like gazpacho contests, book signings, New Age fairs, concerts you can’t afford, and a million activities to keep the kids from saying “I’m bored!” for an hour if you’re lucky. Usually I look at the list of goings-on [...]

  

• America, baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, recipes

  Jew Eat Yet?

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Food and religion seem to me to go hand and hand. My dad’s family is Jewish and my mom’s is Christian, so my brother and I were raised celebrating holidays from both religions. (And no, this does not mean twice the presents. It just means half the presents twice.) Except for some family bar/bat mitzvahs, [...]

  

• America, baking, chicken, cooking, dessert, entrees, recipes

  A Fowl Habit

  10.03.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I am going to take up smoking. I tried it for the first time this past weekend, and let me tell you it is cool. I know, I know. A lot of naysayers out there will try to talk me out of it, but there’s not much you can tell me that I don’t already [...]

  

• America, baking, dessert, recipes

  Like Clockwork

  09.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Ah, youth. They say it’s wasted on the young, and I guess if I weren’t still (kind of) one of the whippersnappers that cliché undermines, I would be inclined to agree. Youth—a song of bill-less, tax-less, job-less naïveté sustained by pizza, French fries, and candy. When long division is the bane of one’s existence, imaginary [...]

  

• America, restaurants

  The Heart of Darkness

  09.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The day my Wellesley acceptance letter came in the mail, I ran out to the mailbox barefoot and, I think, opened the letter out in the street. I ran back inside to tell my dad, who was about as anxious as I was. Then I called my grandparents, Nana and Papa, and while I was [...]

  

• America, baking, cooking, entrees, recipes

  The Facts of Life

  08.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Procreation is a topic supercharged with biology, emotions, politics, and religion even though it is one of the most natural, everyday things. People often say that creation lends meaning to their own lives, that it fills them with a previously unknown depth of love. The start of something from nothing, the fusion of two into [...]

  

• America, baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, Peanute butter, recipes

  An Edible 1040

  08.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Halloween was always a bittersweet holiday for me. I loved dressing up, trick-or-treating, and, more importantly, filling a pillowcase with enough candy to erode my entire skull. (I would still be going now, at the hoary age of 22, but even when I was 15 people were asking, “Aren’t you too old for this?” Is [...]

  

• America, less food-related, musings

  Ask Again Later

  08.19.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Whenever I’m near a globe, I play this game with myself—I spin it around, close my eyes, and put my finger on the globe. Wherever my finger lands, that’s where I’ll go. Of course I was only playing with a hypothetical, fantastical fate. It’s a Magic 8 Ball with a map. At the beginning of [...]

  

• America, pizza, restaurants

  Why Is This Pizza Different From All Other Pizzas?

  08.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “Citizen Kane” is widely asserted to be the Greatest Movie Ever Made. The first time I saw “Citizen Kane,” I had fairly high expectations, but ended up bored out of my mind. It was a let down. I wanted to be wowed and blown away. I wanted it to ruin all other movies for me, [...]

  

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