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Making mincemeat, in non-gory pictures. 26 November 2008 8:02 pm

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We’re talking the kind without meat, here, for pie. I used the recipe in Baking Illustrated, since Kevin demonstrated its awesomeness at last year’s Thanksgiving. We’re at Peter’s parents’ house in the frozen northlands upstate, so I can’t relate the exact recipe, but I can tell you it involved just over three pounds of Greenmarket apples, 3 pounds of apples, plus golden raisins, dried currants (which are just small raisins, did you know that? I’m still a little shocked myself), orange and lemon juice and zest, brown sugar, spices, and oh yeah… a whole stick of butter. NOM. Here’s what the cooking process looked like:

Mincemeat in progress. (more…)

In case you somehow haven’t seen this yet… 25 November 2008 10:18 pm

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Snoop Dogg on Martha Stewart, makin’ mashed potatoes. Comedy gold (big thanks to Ellen for putting it on Facebook for me to enjoy):

Did I mention comedy gold? Because yeah.

Monkey Monday: no surprises here. 24 November 2008 12:28 pm

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So I saw the following instructions online in a few places this morning:

Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

…and it had been awhile since I’d played along with an Internet chain letter, and so here’s what I got. (more…)

Foto Friday: the week in review. 21 November 2008 2:00 pm

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Here’s the very quick summary version: eventually I’ll add links to longer posts about the days in question, but this is what I’ve got for now.

Tuesday

Yay books!

“Hamburgers, Pizza, and Pancakes,” the launch party for the new Edible Series from Reaktion Press, was so fun (more…)

Hamburgers, Pizza, Pancakes: reception report. 18 November 2008 9:27 pm

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On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 I went to “Hamburgers, Pizza, Pancakes” — a reception and presentations at The National Arts Club. The occasion: a book release party for the launch of The Edible Series by Reaktion Books, distributed by the University of Chicago Press. As previously mentioned, it was so much fun I bought the first three books in the series:

Yay books!

Andrew Smith’s Hamburger, Carol Helstosky’s Pizza, and Ken Albala’s Pancake.

Each of the books is subtitled “A Global History,” but the authors took different approaches to their research and writing. (more…)