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Category Archives: thoughts
how to eat a pomelo
First, choose a beautiful pomelo that feels a little heavy for its size. If it’s heavy, it’s juicy, and your fingers, chin, and the corners of your mouth will be dripping with its sticky-sweet acid dew. Next, cut the cupola … Continue reading
Greek-ish lemony burgers with tzatziki and buttered vegetables, or dinner in the time of corona
Greek burgers with tzatziki meal I’m rather amazed at what I put together with $3.67 worth of ground pork from Mitsuwa market, and odds and ends from Trader Joe’s. I bought the pork a few days ago, towards the beginning … Continue reading
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chicken soup with tomatoes
My seven year old had a mild form of the plague recently. OK, fine, not the plague, just one of those awful viruses that’s been going around. Not that one. So I set to work making him the best chicken … Continue reading
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fried and frittered for chanukah
It’s that time of year, when Jews light candles and give presents and fry foods and generally remind ourselves that, hey, even though we don’t celebrate that *other* big holiday, we still party and overeat for eight days and nights … Continue reading
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on david lynch
When I was a teenager, I loved Twin Peaks. I found it very funny, and enjoyed its peculiarity. (I was better able to appreciate its layered, intuitive complexity having watched it again as an adult.) When I watched David Lynch … Continue reading
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on making baby food
This isn’t a mommy blog. Really, it’s not. And I don’t intend to make it one. But this is the place where I write what I write, and what I write is often a reflection of what I’m doing and … Continue reading
recriminations
Faint stirrings, a whimper, a frown that seems to melt your entire face like wax dripping down a candle, a frown that threatens to morph into a full-blown yowl. You turn restlessly to and fro, and I try to determine … Continue reading
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enfant terrible
birthrebirthrebirthrebirthrebirth I’d like to give birth to myself. Vomit out a tiny little replica of me. A small, helpless thing that adores me. A thing I will raise to be myself. As it grows, I will teach it all the … Continue reading
the righteous shopper
Buy local food grown by local farmers. Buy food that is sustainably grown. Reduce your carbon footprint. Buy local food grown by farmers. Buy food that is sustainable. Reduce your carbon footprint. Buy local food. Buy sustainable food. Reduce your … Continue reading
juif
Tonight, I encountered a young homeless man in the tunnels of the Metro. He was sitting cross-legged on the ground, a newspaper in front of him on top of which sat what I immediately recognized as a small velvet tefillin bag … Continue reading
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