To the core
You can core pears with a small knife and a half-teaspoon measure.
ApplePear-green mixer. Goat cheese with… crystallized ginger in it? Thin with mascarpone and milk, stuff into a wine-poached pear. Take exceptionally graphic photo.
Eat.
xx
djd
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This dish : real restaurant sushi salad :: California rolls : real sushi
I am not vegan. Yesterday, in fact, was Bacon Club. But I think my fellow clubbers will agree that nothing gets you to eschew all animal products faster than an afternoon spent ingesting cured pork. (The only thing that got me to karate tonight was remembering the bacon I ate yesterday.)
Hence: fake sushi salad. Continue reading ‘Dinner at my house 3/1: fake sushi salad’
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Read part one first. I mean it. It’s clever.
Marisa Meltzer’s new book made me wonder why I didn’t get into riot grrrl at the time. Thoughts so far: I was a disaffected wuss who buried herself in books.
4. Riot grrrl had an unfortunate tendency to make my less-naïve NYC friends Too Cool for Me.
This is where I mention long-lost friends by their full names to potentially spice up the comments. Continue reading ‘Girl power at some point, probably, I guess (part two of two)’
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Long post, short intro: Today I heard Marisa Meltzer read from her new book, Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music, at the Booksmith. (I haven’t read her Sassy book; it kills me that a. I didn’t come up with the idea myself and b. my mom threw away my nearly complete collection after a fight.)
The discussion intersected with my week’s obsession with My Life Circa 1993. Meltzer and I are the same age (also, she’s a lovely lady with great hair). So it’s eating at me:
Why wasn’t I into riot grrrl?
Continue reading ‘Girl power at some point, probably, I guess (part one of two)’
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3 p.m.
Unaffiliated Reading Series
at Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA
(If you come I might tell you about the party later on.)
As usual, journalistic disclaimer: Kate is the best. But. TOWN is a perfect mix of intriguing ideas/use of language. Fresh but not incomprehensible; evocative, not self-indulgent. It sounds wise. Also, there are videophone riots.
First poem from TOWN. Order the book.
CUSTOM/LAW CONSTRUCTION/INFRASTRUCTURE
TOURISM
There is no such
thing as home. There’s
no place
like home that
lingers not
surprisingly:
when Mrs. Lila
Corning was the head
of the Auxiliary
This town hosts a festival
It is an Autumn Leaf Festival
The Autumn Leaf Festival celebrates
the time of year when the town
leaves change
to brochures and flutter
and catch and pulp in the ordinary
street material
in some places
where the pavement is
thin
or cracked
the town leaves
room for ephemera.
The Auxiliary
Welcomes You.
–
Other readings:
2/25 Providence (Symposium Books)
2/26 Brooklyn (Pete’s Candy Store)
xx
djd
p.s. Got some very early feedback on the [book project] and so far the word is keep going, it doesn’t suck. Irène Némirovsky, in her final notebook: “I must create something great and stop wondering if there’s any point.”
p.p.s. Did I mention the Crooked Places Made Straight Christian Academy? Kate writes about that too.
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My friend Ryan the Terrible has an occasional restaurant review blog called This Is Why I Am Always Broke. I’m off from Berklee this week to work on a writing project, a.k.a. cook. As usual, I’m mostly making the items that other people buy so that they can actually cook a proper meal. From Sunday through now, Tuesday evening, I have made: Continue reading ‘This is why there are always dishes in my sink’
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