One day when my dad picked me up from kindergarten he told me that he and mom had a surprise. Food minded, I asked if it was candy, when he…
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We Were the McGill Girls
by Guest Contributor December 17, 2019We were the McGill Girls. The phenom that rose from the ashes of my parents’ brutal divorce. Pulled tightly together, a mother and her two girls, arms interlocked and nestled…
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A San Francisco Story
by Guest Contributor June 28, 2019Image Credit: Mural drawn onto the side of the bus shelter at 46th Avenue & Taraval in San Francisco, CA I tried to behave. Then there was the night I…
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Everything We Are: An Ode & Elegy
by Guest Contributor May 24, 2019Image Credit: Patri Hadad “Anthony Bourdain made everyone come to the same table // …
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Pain d’Epi
by Guest Contributor December 2, 2018French epi with pull-apart leaves left on the counter. Croissants flavored with chocolate, raspberry, almond, and cheese. Deli trays, brownie bites, and fruit-filled bouquets. Loaf after loaf—rye, sourdough, wheat. Frozen…
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Literacy Narrative: In Search of Dumplings and Dead Poets
by Guest Contributor February 22, 2018Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London rises from the ground 750 feet from the original site of the theater, the one built by the Chamberlain’s Men. Its white timbered exterior glows…
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Guy Fieri and the World of Dreams
by Sam Virzi February 6, 2018Photo credit: Imgur.com They serve ethnic food for two reasons, Guy Fieri says: people from all over the place work here, and people want to eat food from all over…
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THE ART OF TERRY ARENA
by Maxi Kim February 6, 2017erry Arena, whose large-scale installation received the Board of Director’s Award at this year’s Baja Biennial, lives in the rich agricultural region of Ventura, California, where she teaches the fundamentals…
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“Cleanse, attend, recalibrate”: A Conversation with Ben and Sandra Doller
by Joe Milazzo January 12, 2017Somewhere, in an email nearly a decade old now, and in reference to a conversation I can’t quite recall, Sesshu Foster wrote something to the effect of “there’s a difference…
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Ode to a Latte Macchiato
by Andrea Lambert February 26, 2016Whether or not I sound like a shill for Starbucks, as the Latte Macchiato is their hot new drink, I care not. Full disclosure: Starbucks corporate offices did not pay…
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Peeling the Concord
by Brittany Borghi February 15, 2016We learn to tie a maraschino stem with our tongues before we meet you, learn to peel away the wrapper of a Starburst square with our teeth (and suck), dry…
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The Cowboy Brunch Burger
by Guest Contributor January 28, 2016Midsummer noon, just outside the knot of angular skyscrapers that mark downtown Houston, I pull up to a clapboard building across the street from a lumber dealer and release a burning…
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Edible Etymologies: Thanksgiving Edition
by Meriwether Clarke November 25, 2015According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…
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Dinner
by Carrie Helms Tippen November 16, 2015The Southern woman in me brings food to misfortune – potato casserole crusted with corn flakes, pound cake soaked in sugar and rum – an apology for not taking the blow…