Shrink in the Kitchen

I don’t know if you’re already aware of this, but if you are please spread the news: We can weather the storm of restaurants serving up guts and high fat, the in-your-face cuisine of kids raised by health conscious parents …

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Fascinating piece in today’s NYT, front section, all about grass fed beef: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/for-ranchers-an-uncommon-quest-for-grass-fed-beef.html?hp.

Sensibly, the editors decided that this is a news story and not really about food although the subjects of their piece would have it otherwise.  Ironically, the …

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You’ve got to be kidding, right?  Father’s Day never made it to the calendar here in Curmudgeon Heights.  It wasn’t a holiday growing up nor in the early years of being a parent.  But still, why not?

The bakery was …

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I’m early on in, “Fascist Voices,” by Timothy Duggan, which I bought after a great review in the London Review of Books by Richard Evans, an historian whose work I’ve enjoyed and learned from and admired for years.  Based on …

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