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okay people. whatever you think of dirty streets, rude people, and crowded everywhere, there is one major bonus to living in New York City.

You can go to City Bakery any time you want and get pretzel croissants.


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i am SO excited to have discovered this technique. it's so easy!

http://mideastfood.about.com/od/tipsandtechniques/ss/deseedpomegrana_2.htm


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have you ever had a scotch kiss ( Read more... )

We established in Part I: Pepsi vs. Coke that F can accurately identify Coke and Pepsi, whereas I can only tell that they are different, but not which is which ( Read more... )

Another by-product of reading Blink is an intense desire to repeat the Pepsi Challenge of the 1980s, famous for revealing that people preferred Pepsi over Coke in blind taste tests ( Read more... )

people always post gorgeous photos of their culinary successes. i am going to post our failure!

thursday at a local izakaya, we had yaki-onigiri with salmon filling and the grilled rice was pure pleasure.
crappy camera phone photo:

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Alice introduced me to Dream Dinners, which I'm trying for a month. Basically, busy people go to one of their super-organized kitchens and pre-assemble a bunch of meals at once to take home and throw in the freezer ( Read more... )

connie organized a dumpling-making party on sunday, and we wanted to try making xiao long bao, those little steamed dumplings with soup inside. people wait in line for hours at restaurants that do these well. we made a test batch the night before to make sure the recipe would work ( Read more... )

are you not supposed to eat spinach and tofu in the same day ( Read more... )