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Cheesy Pepperjack Tornado Revisited
December forces reflection. So in the spirit of this reflection, I thought I would round out a year in this long-neglected newsletter with a fourth…
Dec 18, 2020
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June 2020
Wingz
One of Des Moines’ greatest culinary centers is the parking lot of the Advanced Auto Parts off of University Avenue in the King Irving neighborhood…
Jun 26, 2020
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May 2020
Cheesy Pepperjack Tornado
The view from a street in Des Moines’ Drake Neighborhood (2020) Part I: It Is What It Is Here’s a good what if? moment from the annals of my strange…
May 9, 2020
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February 2020
Chop suey
The Rice Bowl (Exterior) in Beaverdale, Des Moines (2019) Walking into The Rice Bowl, nearly hidden among the businesses amassed together in the…
Feb 7, 2020
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December 2018
Lasagna
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, Osservanza Master (ca. 1435) Returning to New York in October was an exercise in attempting to manage a…
Dec 14, 2018
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November 2018
No-knead bread
Bread, Richard Artschwager (1966) A no-knead bread recipe is only a recipe in the sense that it exists as a set of instructions involving the…
Nov 26, 2018
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Beef cheek tacos
It’s been one of this intense and strange week and since it’s the holidays, that can only mean that it’s swinging into an even stranger, more intense…
Nov 19, 2018
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Brined pork chops with fennel
Cypriot Terracotta Pig Vessel (3rd-2nd Century BC) Taking off in the dark, the plane window reveals many small lights, like flames in the night. This is…
Nov 11, 2018
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October 2018
Lactation cookies
Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (1500) There are few commonplace events which prove the malleability and the fragility of the human animal body…
Oct 14, 2018
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Dunkin'
Still from “Men seated around a table dip donuts in coffee cups and eat during the Donut Dunk...” (1946) Upon first encountering Dunkin’ Donuts in my…
Oct 8, 2018
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Snickerdoodle
The last week of September hit like a bag of bricks slipping out of an unsecured pickup bed onto the windshield of an unsuspecting car in traffic…
Oct 1, 2018
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September 2018
Pumpkin spice latte
There are few seasonal beverages so maligned and filled with meaning as the pumpkin spice latte. Since it’s popularization by Starbucks, it has become a…
Sep 24, 2018
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