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4 of the top 10 things that guys, even more so heterosexual, don’t do naturally of their own free will are: 1) their nails; 2) shopping; 3) ironing… and; 4) dirty dishes, the later only it there isn’t any more space left in or around the kitchen sink. You know, those leaning tower constructs of stained, somewhat brownish plates, glasses and silverware that seem to defy gravity as they glisten under the lighting, testaments to the open and heat meals of days gone by?

July 21, 2021

Wednesday Will – Garlic Pasta Sonnet 116

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Garlic Pasta Sonnet 116 Garlic Pasta Sonnet 116“And scorne not Garlicke like to some, that think / It onely makes men winke, and drinke, …

July 12, 2021

The Simplest of Pasta (spaghetti with a Neruda – 117 years – tomato sauce)

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‘…the tomato,
star of earth, recurrent
and fertile…’
Pablo Neruda

June 30, 2021

Wednesday Will: Shakespeare’s Vermouth Shrimp alla Elsinore

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‘In his recipe, however, Shakespeare does at least change the liquor Belleforest used as well as adding the “Wha’s up!” exchange, taken from the noted add campaign by Bud-of-Weiser, in the opening scene, a second sea scallop dish later in the recipe and of course the ghost of Julia Child.’

June 23, 2021

Wednesday Will – A Midsummer Night’s Spaghetti with Saffron and Lamb

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Though Shakespeare often, ah, borrowed the basis for his recipes every so often he came up with something completely different. His immensely popular Midsummer Spaghetti is one of those original dishes. It’s been rumored that he got the idea after attending a wedding in Greece at which peculiar homegrown ouzo was served, but Shakespeare’s always been mute on the point.

June 20, 2021

literary recipe: Dan Brown’s Travel Pasta with Butter, Sage and Ricotta

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“That was really, really close,” you adroitly say after you’ve escaped by running through a mysterious antique ruin that just happened to have a store of the special butter made from the milk of cows fed exclusively on a rare flower that grows only on one particular European hillside that you were looking for. Eureka!

June 18, 2021

Big Flavors, Small Price (June meal poll): Spaghettoni with Fresh Goat Cheese

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t’s nearly always a balance, almost a dance – an equilibrium, a playing, contrast and synchrony, surprise and familiarity. Cooking that is, organizing a plate, adjusting for salt and sweet, umami and creamy, crunch and mushy and heat and bite and…