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Jumping frogs (or, “en med det hele”)

By E | Posted on: September 26, 2009
I really must do something about my food photography. The other day I decided it was time for yet another violation of my (increasingly silly, as I’m coming to see it) aversion to mixing meat and bread. It was time for hotdogs. Of course for the novice this poses all sorts of difficult decisions when [...]
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What We Have Wrought

By E | Posted on: September 22, 2009
If I were to describe the single best thing about my life with the Philosophe, I’d have to borrow a line my father used to like (he said it was from Kierkegaard, though I remain unconvinced of the source): the joy of expectation. From the day we decided to get married, we have been planning [...]
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Slow cooked meats and crinkled sheets

By E | Posted on: September 6, 2009
Not having a bathroom turns out to be an amazingly effective way to not do a whole lot things you’d think have nothing to do with having a bathroom. Like cooking, because everything is so dusty. And working, because how can I settle down without being able to get up to pee every 5 minutes. [...]
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It Must have Been Something She Ate

By E | Posted on: August 21, 2009
Poor little Mogwai wasn’t a happy cat the other day. Normally a greed-bucket of note, she turned her nose up at at least four meals. Here she is empathising with Jeffrey Steingarten. (She’s all better now. She managed about a third of my bowl of – heavily wasabi-spiced – popcorn last night). In other news, [...]
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Bread and meat

By E | Posted on: August 9, 2009
Being a Dane (when I feel like it), I’ve never had a taste for closed sandwiches. Which is not to say that I don’t love bread – I do, in all its glorious chewy starchiness. But in my universe, the best bread is eaten solo, with butter (perhaps cheese), while the main focus of sandwiches [...]
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Is that duck fat in my brownie?

By E | Posted on: August 8, 2009
Nah, just kidding, of course I didn’t make brownies with duck fat. But recently the aromas of brownies and duck fat (cooking separately) in our kitchen were positively intoxicating, and made me think of an article I read many years ago when Ferran Adria was still a novelty (“Is that Ham Fat on my Cherry?”). [...]
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Xbox Tosser

By E | Posted on: July 30, 2009
I often make fun of other cars when I’m on the road. I find it’s a good alternative to getting irritated by how badly people drive. And often it’s the people in big cars with silly names who are the worst drivers of all. The BMW X5, for instance, often contains small women who talk [...]
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On piza and patsa

By E | Posted on: July 28, 2009
Being in the family of a prominent restaurant reviewer sometimes has its perks: for one thing, we have easy and direct access to a wealth of information about where to go (or not), and secondly, a constant gentle pressure to eat out so we can report back on our experiences. Given that this is something [...]
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Our Daily Bread

By E | Posted on: July 22, 2009
So I’m finally getting round to watching Our Daily Bread, a documentary about the food industry that is by now pretty old hat (it’s from 2005, and the present continuous tense is purposeful: the film is playing on the TV right now, as I write this on the couch, laptop on lap – as it [...]
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Strength by brownie

By E | Posted on: July 18, 2009
Recent brownie successes have apparently heralded a new bountious era for our kitchen. (The cracked brownies, by the way, were not definitive. They were so sweet that they haunted me in my sleep and the next day I got up and baked a new batch of my own – heavily intertextual – invention. This second [...]
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