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You can buy Julia Child’s house — but not her kitchen

For $6.475 million, you can live in Julia Child’s longtime Cambridge home. You just can’t cook in Julia Child’s kitchen. Child lived in the house for roughly four decades and filmed several of her later television shows there, including “In…
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Is iced coffee really unprofessional at a job interview?

A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby. He worked at a nearby university and had messaged…
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Don’t meal prep. Make yourself one nice thing

This ordinarily would not constitute a crisis. Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up. Realize there was nothing…
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Court squashes Reese’s faceless pumpkin lawsuit

With Halloween coming up, there’s no need to worry that you won’t get any pumpkin-shaped chocolate and peanut butter candy in your trick-or-treat basket. A federal judge has ruled that disappointment over a faceless Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin isn’t enough…
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“South Park” predicted the age of food insanity

Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category.  In the 2014 episode “Gluten Free Ebola,” residents begin violently dying…
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Bourdain’s ’90s gangster novels couldn’t escape the kitchen

Before Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain, he was writing crime novels about cooks. That’s the strange pleasure of “Three Crime Novels,” a new collection of “Bone in the Throat” (1995), “Gone Bamboo” (1997) and “The Bobby Gold Stories” (2002), re-released…
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Hide your vegetables. You’re an adult

The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter. Which, essentially, it was. The…
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These stewy mushrooms solve Monday night dinner

I always want Mondays to be a lighter lift than they end up being. I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain…
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Taco Bell exposed RFK Jr.’s food-safety failure

On Friday, federal health officials finally put an end date on the largest Cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. Nearly 13,000 people across 21 states had been sickened, 570 hospitalized and two had died after an outbreak linked to shredded iceberg…
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