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Why the right is so afraid of the Girl Scouts

The American culture war has always had a bit of a sweet tooth. There were the Oreos that became boycott fodder after the brand released an ad centered on a young man coming out to his family. There were the…
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Trump’s mystery meat problem – Salon.com

One of the things I have always loved about “Bob’s Burgers” is the bittersweet certainty that the Belchers may get ahead, but never by very much. Sixteen seasons have been built, in part, around the small economies of restaurant life:…
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The pasta that starts in the freezer

For most of last fall, kielbasa was always on sale at my local Mariano’s. Not dramatically on sale, in the way of a holiday ham wearing a fluorescent sticker that announces some brief and glorious collapse in the market. Just…
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I don’t want another restaurant app

The other afternoon, I was trying to take a nap. I had worked late the night before, and dinner was still several hours away, and I had achieved that particular state of adult exhaustion in which closing your eyes for…
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Black bean soup for tired weeknights

I have spent the last several days in bridal-shower mode, which is how I recently became the sort of woman who knows where, in Louisville, one might procure emergency ribbon. My sister Emma is getting married this fall, and almost…
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Our 5 favorite (new) farmers market recipes

Last week, I wrote about the pasta that finally taught me how to shop at the farmers market. What I didn’t mention was that I ate the first quarter of my bowl standing up, at the bar top between my…
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We’re all amateur food safety inspectors now

I’m standing in the produce aisle of my neighborhood supermarket, between the fresh vegetables receiving their bi-hourly overhead mist and a long refrigerated wall of salad kits. Lately, the store has been running sales on the Taylor Farms ones. The…
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Trump’s catering-truck farce – Salon.com

Perhaps it is because I’ve been nursing a slight and recent obsession with zany detective movies of the 1960s — prompted by “The Pink Panther,” then by following the Peter Sellers trail to “A Shot in the Dark” and “After…
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In Spain, summer begins with fire and feasts

Our table at Cuatrolatas never stood a chance. My glass of vermút sweats down to the turquoise tabletop. Standing room only among wine glasses, water glasses, sunglasses, juice glasses. A platter of summer tomatoes, tuna-belly conserva, shaved onion, and punchy…
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