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• baking, cooking, dessert, entrees, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients

  What’s the Chinese Word For ‘Gobble?’

  12.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Like Moses’ plague of locusts, the Holidays are upon us. The Holidays mean different things to different people—gathering with loved ones and celebrating, shopping, avoiding loved ones and celebrating, watching sports or parades, drinking, and so on. American holidays seem to feel a little more special when you’re an expat. When it’s a holiday in [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

• animals, baking, butter, chicken, chocolate, cooking, dessert, recipes, road trippin'

  Le Week-end

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It’s a pretty dull life out here, being an unemployed college graduate shacking up with the parents. Sure, I’m catching up on reruns of shows like Home Improvement and Reba, but it’s getting harder to find quality television to suit my needs. Thankfully I’ll be out of here in a few weeks. When I’m home [...]

  

• 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, baking, butter, cake, cooking, dessert, recipes

  Ich Bin Ein Kuchen

  08.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  You know how families have those classic recipes, the ones that are passed down through generations? Maybe there’s a grandmother that made Apple Pie That Brought the Family Together, and then she taught her daughter how to make it and that woman taught her daughter and it becomes the family legacy with ‘secret ingredients’ and [...]

  

• baking, cooking, dessert, pizza, recipes

  Plastics

  06.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My mother decided it would be a fun idea to throw me a graduation party. This is kind of a big deal for my family, because we never throw parties. When my dad got his masters degree, we had a party, but my brother and I were sequestered in another room with a television and [...]

  

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