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Shocking!

July 20, 2010
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Because She Who Must Be Obeyed and I donate to the Boston Museum of Science, we frequently get invited to exhibit previews and special events. Last Saturday we took a behind the scenes tour of the Theater of Electricity, the wing of the museum that contains the giant Van de Graaf generator, pictured above. This [...]

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Readercon 21

July 8, 2010
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I‘m off to Readercon 21. I wrote about the conference last year, but the big difference for me is that I am this year’s Program Chair, which means I’m in charge of the content creation and scheduling processes. It’s a job that has consumed every available moment of my life since May, which explains why [...]

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Market Holiday

July 3, 2010
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I‘m still working through last week’s market haul, so today was more of a reconnoitering instead of a purchasing trip. Still, I couldn’t pass up the first yellow beans, fava beans,  and red onions of the season, as well as some flowers for She Who Must Be Obeyed and a triple berry pie  for our [...]

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Market Restrictions

June 19, 2010
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Too much work, not enough cooking, and a flat-out refusal from He Who Will Not Be Ignored to eat any more leafy greens for a while (and I did manage to get him to eat kale, chard, and spinach in the span of a single week) have all conspired to make today’s market trip a [...]

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Market Promise

June 12, 2010
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Today was another Saturday at the farmer’s market when it was threatening to rain, but it didn’t deter the locals. I’m using a different approach to my shopping this season, buying only what I’m absolutely sure I plan to cook within a week, rather than picking something because it looks god and i might be [...]

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Lambs to the Slaughter

March 27, 2010
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It’s not too often that you get to use that phrase in a non-metaphorical sense, but if today’s meat CSA pickup was any indication, many sheep had been recently dispatched. This months share included pork spare ribs, a pork hock, ground beef, a whole chicken, two lamb leg steaks, and lamb chops. I added a [...]

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Monthy Meat-Up

March 1, 2010
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Another month, another meat score. The people at Stillman’s have spoiled me for any other chickens. Now, when I “settle” for a Bell & Evans bird, it still tastes bland compared to the free-range version. The rest of the delivery was hot Italian sausage, a pork loin roast, and pork cutlets. I supplemented those with [...]

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Whole Lotta Umami

January 5, 2010
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The cooking buzzword last year was umami, the “fifth taste” responsible for our sensing “meatiness.” Before that taste had a name, however, cooks in the know had a pantry full of components they could add to boost a dish’s savory notes. A quick look through the Belm Research Kitchen turned up these (not including the [...]

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Where Fluff Comes From

December 9, 2009
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The Fluff Boy comic, which I mentioned previously, is always available at Hub Comics, my local purveyor of all things graphically geeky. Last week, while making my weekly subscription pickup visit, I noticed that the original artwork was available for sale. I immediately snatched up my favorite panel, one of a series of pages that [...]

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In the Basement Mixing Up the Medicine

December 4, 2009
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Until my recent birthday dinner, I used to tell people that the best birthday present I ever received from She Who Must Be Obeyed was a house. We signed the closing papers on November 28, 1995 – my birthday – but we didn’t move in until the following weekend, which corresponds to this weekend. On [...]

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