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A good dining experience is very much like a night out at the theater. There’s an opening act, the starter or appetizer. Then there’s dramatic tension, the meat of the play if you will, the entree. Finally, everything wraps up with a sweet culmination, a dessert or cordial. Amidst all of this there is music…
A while back I wrote a post about subscription boxes (*ahem, this one*) and how I don’t think many of them are worth what you pay for them. Maybe it’s all the MBA classes I’ve been taking, but I’m huge on return value-whether that’s a meaningful blog post that leaves me more informed after reading it,…
If you’re looking to impress dinner party guests, spruce up your cooking skills to wow a significant other, or simply take yourself on a culinary adventure to the French countryside, look no further than Gabriel Gaté’s new book, Délicieux. It is exactly that, delicious. French food is notorious for being difficult to make and oftentimes an all…
Mike McEnearney is an acclaimed Australian chef who pioneered the idea of a ‘physic garden.’ “What’s that,” you ask? Well, it’s an ancient style of medicinal garden that guides natural health such as muscular (ginger, tumeric) gastroenterological (dill, oregano), or neurological (lemon, verbene, chamomile) through the consumption of herbs and plants based on the season…
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3LOL is what third-year law students fondly refer to the final year of law school. There’s a saying that the first year they scare you to death; the second year they work you to death; the third year they bore you to death. Thus far, I’d say this is pretty accurate. It’s the eve of…
It’s rare to find a cookbook that does more than instruct you on how to make food. In The Beauty Chef by Carla Oates, readers are in for quite an experience. My first impression of the book was that it’s pretty- a white, hardbound 343 pages with beautiful photography. Sounds good, right? Maybe that’s enough…
Calling anyone with a sweet tooth, have I got a book for you! The Desserts of New York and How to Eat Them All by Yasmin Newman is an inexplicably delightful read that transports you to the lively boroughs nestled in New York City and delves head-first into a world of pastries and sweets. Even…
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