When the stove in my Brooklyn apartment started to leak gas last year, the gas company sent a technician, a burly man with a sunburned scalp, who told me that…
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What’s in the Wok
by Guest Contributor August 4, 2020I never knew my lola. Every few months, I would hear her voice crackle through the phone from the other side of the Earth. On the mantel, I would see…
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The Fish
by Guest Contributor July 6, 2020My mother turned up at my door with a huge hunk of fish wrapped in newspaper. She rarely stopped by the house even though she lived right down the street. …
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Dinnerview: Stevie Edwards
by Danielle Susi September 18, 2019Stevie Edwards is the author of two poetry collections, Good Grief (Write Bloody) and Humanly (Small Doggies), as well as a recent chapbook Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry). She holds a…
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Dinnerview: Tommy Pico
by Danielle Susi May 29, 2019Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation…
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Stuffed Artichokes for Millennials Harmed by Structural Failure
by Guest Contributor January 21, 2019This is cooking for abandoned hopes. For the path that fails or, rather, fails you. I am not sure what generational identity or identifying can do for us at this…
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Cooking Origin Stories: In the Kitchen, My Mother’s Daughter
by Guest Contributor January 7, 2019I think I was turning 14, when I decided that I would never learn how to cook. Not deliberately at least. As a young girl stubborn in her intentions to…
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Cooking Origin Stories: Eating Like a Person
by Guest Contributor September 28, 2018I was a child of the 1990’s, but you wouldn’t know it by the way my family ate. While most of my friends were having canned ravioli and tie-dye yogurts,…
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Won Ton – The Art of Swallowing a Cloud
by Guest Contributor August 6, 2018“Where’re you going?” Mom called sharply from the kitchen. “Aren’t you going to help me?” I stopped, one foot on the stairs. My eyes were bleary, my temper suddenly short.…
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Lamb Barbecue
by Guest Contributor July 25, 2018By the time we got to the dusty park in Durham, California, with its canopy of towering valley oaks, the men—my dad, my granddad, dozens of others—had always been there…
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Cooking Origin Stories: How (Not) to Make Pork Chops
by Guest Contributor April 18, 2018I grew up in Iowa, in the seventies, but not until I left Iowa, and the 2000s, did I understand why people ate pork chops: my mother was an uninterested…
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Bird’s Milk (Lapte de pasăre)
by Guest Contributor March 21, 2018When you’re sad or you had a bad day, try this: make bird’s milk. When it’s ready, it looks like immaculate clouds floating on a sky made out of sweet…
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Funeral Potatoes
by Elizabeth Toscano December 22, 2017I was born in Provo, Utah. This is not an easy thing for me to admit. It is a shame that dogs me always despite the fact that I’ve lived…
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Julia Child and The Zen of the Omelette
by John Boudreau November 7, 2016Are you near your cookbooks right now? Sorry, I forgot we’re on the internet—a better question might be: do you even own cookbooks? If you do, chances are good that…