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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

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So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

One more weekend of Open Letters 26 November 2011 4:19 pm

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Today I found quinces at the farm store down the street from my brother’s place in Vermont!

So I wrote them a little love note at my Open Letters blog. Check it out!

Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am

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Happy Buy Nothing Day!

I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:

Monkey Monday: Thanksgiving week continues. 21 November 2011 11:42 pm

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So I got into the Thanksgiving spirit early with my epistolography yesterday, and I’ve got a few extra gratitude-themed posts planned for later this week (one of which is foreshadowed by a high-larious comic hidden in a link in this very entry!)

I feel like I’m turning into the NaBloPoMo homestretch, and that means I have to be extra-bonus careful not to fall into complacency, especially at the end of this week when I’ll be all distracted by holiday family action. Today I have been all distracted in general but a highlight of that distraction was that I now know I can make pierogies! This changes everything! Ok, not really, but (more…)