My Dog is Chelsea

(I originally posted this on my Culinate blog.) “What do you think this is? A carrot or a beet?” I was eating dinner recently at the bar of a nice restaurant with my Uncle Joe and my mother. The patrons next to us were prodding their side veggies—a beautiful medley of young carrots in a [...]

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I’m sure you’ve all seen that “25 things about me” tag on Facebook. I hate tags, always have. BUT! On Culinate, there’s been a “25 food things” going around that I couldn’t resist. Here are some of mine (because 25 is far too many): 1. I detest eggplant. Do not feed it to me in [...]

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I need your help. NEED it. Like, really badly. For this: Here’s the thing: I have wanted one of these retro-looking KitchenAid stand mixers since before I even had a kitchen to put it in. Heck, since before I even knew how to bake! Yes—it’s true, I have a hand-held mixer, and he is a [...]

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Several people have asked me: “How was it?” The answer: “It was totally awesome.” But first—just how did I score tickets to Michael Pollan’s totally awesome and totally sold-out Tuesday night appearance? Well, there is a freeze on annual raises at my job, and my boss gave me these tickets in lieu of a raise [...]

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Two summers ago, while I was home for my grandmother’s 90th birthday party, I interviewed my Aunt Joanne telling the story of fulfilling (albeit briefly) her lifelong dream of working in a bakery. Now, mind you, when she took on her Saturday shift at the retail shop of the Balthazar Bakery—a high-end wholesale bakery that [...]

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