Category: Home Cooking

Kitchen Hex

I feel cursed. I am looking around my apartment for evil-looking amulets. I am examining my recent actions for bad karma generation. But I am stumped as to why my pots are scorching, my cookies are cakey, and my meat sauce is mushy.

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Condimental

How can I come back from Mexico, to what is basically an empty fridge, and still have a hard time tossing something on the top shelf?

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The Grilled Duck

This weekend was really a return to the Astoria salad days, when I would spend the day toddling from one fascinating grocery store to another, and then spend hours cooking dinner.

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Chapter 10,083, in which I once again consume too much

In a city of 8 million, it's hard to feel like you're ever doing something unique or remarkable. But I do think I was the only person in NYC carrying a cast-iron skillet home in my bike bag at 1 am on Sunday night.

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