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Life is Hard. Eat White Bread. (Recipe)

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In the U.S., fascism and racism and anti-semitism and misogyny and xenophobia are back with a vengeance, seemingly emboldened by the current political environment, there's fake news all over the web, propaganda on cable news, the President is, um, problematic.

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categories: Food, Recipes
Thursday 02.22.18
Posted by Kevin Keating
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The Solitary Baker

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For the last four months of 2017, I lived alone in Torino, in a random apartment about forty minutes by foot from the bakery where I was located for my stage/internship. Six days a week, I woke up at 2:00 a.m., ate a quick breakfast, and then went out, in the dark, alone, to walk to work.

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categories: Food
Friday 02.16.18
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Bread & Lard

Two years ago, crammed into a tiny green gazebo at the house of my wife's grandparents in Voronezh, Russia, the simplest of meals somehow changed my life.

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categories: Food
Wednesday 06.14.17
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Slow Cooking, Slow Eating

Seemingly every day marks the introduction of another way to reduce the time we spend cooking and eating. Thanks, but no thanks.

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categories: Food
Monday 10.19.15
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International Culinary Center: Week One

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Assorted thoughts on Week One of the Italian Culinary Experience at the International Culinary Center, with as much coherence as I can muster after the most draining and exhilarating week in recent memory.

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Monday 10.12.15
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Simple, Small, and Slow

At the door, a man—wielding a large knife—slicing, always slicing. You walk in. Pause. A single question. In Italian at first—then English, if you, like I, seem a little puzzled. But you needn't be. There are only two options. This blunt simplicity has a weird way of translating the Italian in your brain after the fact. "Oh, of course that's what he said," you think.

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categories: Food
Thursday 05.07.15
Posted by Kevin Keating