I was baking today and listening to They Might Be Giants. Now I have this song stuck in my head.

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For Jews around the world, this is the week we eat matzo-imagine a large saltine, without salt, and even less flavor. Some will quibble with this description.

I know a matzo aficionado who stockpiles her favorite brands just before Passover, and eats it year round. She’ll explain that the whole wheat version can be flavorful; egg matzo is useful for ( Read more... )

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When the weather gets cold, and I want something hearty and tasty for dinner but can't hang around the kitchen all day, I sometimes make this stew ( Read more... )

This sounds like something the Onion would have thought up: apparently, Norway has eaten through it's entire stock of butter. The funniest sad news I've read in a while.

Thanks to Patrick Nielsen Hayden for the link.

This Thanksgiving, I offered to bring several pies from a local orchard ( Read more... )

I made challah listening to the Pogues. Somehow it seemed appropriate today.

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Although bacon still doesn't qualify as a health food, eating it is healthier than smoking cigarettes. (Phew!)

"[O]ne cigarette is roughly as dangerous as nine slices of bacon."

And there you have it.

Thanks to John Scalzi for the link.

"Indian food is what American food would be if we weren't all wimps, and it was delicious."