9 am Sunday: butter and babies
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One night last week—after five glasses of wine, a deep-fried breaded soft-boiled egg, and a Freudian slip about a man who once fed me a meal...
The bread-baking frenzy
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Dear reader, I’ve been wielding the tools of anthropology haphazardly again.Lately I’ve noticed that every time I cross paths with women of ...
Pâte brisée for a pillow
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I know it’s been said about all sorts of things, but this is the stuff that dreams are made of. I mean it.Our recent discussion of eating, s...
The simple and the unsexy
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After a weekend of cream puffs, a girl’s got to take a breather.Moderation is horribly unglamorous, I know. But, dear reader, I also know th...
Bagnette, breasts, and an excuse to eat pink whipped cream
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“My dowry has just increased exponentially,” Kate announced, smirking audibly into the receiver. “I made cream puffs!”I could hear Kate'...
A man who knows meatballs
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My friend Doron might lust for a more well-endowed kitchen, but he can make a mean meatball.I should have guessed as much. After all, last s...
Eating, sleeping, breathing
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This is getting serious.Last week my friend Doron e-mailed to tell me about a dream he’d had in which he’d gone into a store and picked up “...
An interlude, or what I listen to when eating orangettes
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It’s been making the rounds, and thanks to fellow Seattlite Megan of iheartbacon, it’s come to Orangette: the “music in my kitchen” survey. ...
On Spandex, a mother’s genius, and whole wheat bread
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Sometime in the early 1980s, my mother discovered exercise.First there was aerobics, with its perky wardrobe of pastel tights and leotards w...