During a recent visit to a (very popular) Austin restaurant, my best friend, in town for the weekend, ordered a plate of pasta, enticed by promises of local-only ingredients and housemade pappardelle. The portion was ginormous, for one, a forgivable offense but still wince-worthy. The cheese situation was confusing; though it TASTED like goat cheese,… Continue reading The Pasta Snob
*Or, My Love Affair with Food & Wine Magazine The hours I spend in a grocery store feel like the most lost and wasted ones of my day. My struggle with grocery shopping–one that I realize is hardly a struggle and marks me as an extremely privileged human being–is mainly with the chore-like necessity of… Continue reading My Grand Grocery Experiment*
When you really think about it, STOCK, just the word itself, suggests the most basic of things. The root of things. When you come from good stock, you come from something tried and true and tested and trusted. And so, as I reemerge from a very confusing year of career shifts and life changes and… Continue reading Talking stock
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