Food! Glorious Food!

A Christmas Quarrel
Christmas Cookie Recipe CookFight
Recipes:

Bacon Fat Gingersnaps

Round 1: Linzer Trees vs. Chocolate-Mint Thins With Candy Cane Crunch

Round 2: Aunt Phillomena’s Pizzelle vs. Aylenish Rugelach With Orange, Walnuts and Cinnamon

Round 3: Chewy Chocolate Snowcaps vs. Salty-Sweet Peanut Butter Sandies

Oh, Go Ahead, Lick the Pages
Cookbook Review: Dorie Greenpan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi,’ Nick Malgieri’s ‘Pastry’

Recipes:
Gingerbread Bûche de Noël
Reversed Impossible Chocolate Flan
Gluten-Free Apple Crumble

Sri Lankan Kottu Roti, by Way of Staten Island
Recipe:

Chicken Kottu Roti

Delicious Medicine for the Body and Soul
Recipe:

Health Soup

Braise Your Way Through Winter
Braising Meat Makes Tough Cuts Savory and Tender
Recipe:

Beef Short Ribs With Star Anise and Tangerine

Exploring the Middle Ground in Riojas Reservas

Two Cocktails to Chill Your Chill Away
Recipes:

Brandy Alexander
The Snowball

Online Sales for Girl Scout Cookies Are Approved

Americans Are Eating a Lot More Berries. Here’s Why.

Cranberry Growers Search for Ways to Share Their Bounty

Urban Farmers Trade Goods and Stories at ‘Crop Swaps’

I'm not sayin'...

I loved the new spring at the end of the block, but I could imagine those frog filled summer nights. Of course, the huge ice walls the formed around it in the cold were difficult to drive across, and the huge one or two feet it streamed before going down a storm sewer meant there was never going to be any kayaking. Now the city is telling us we're not going to have any water tomorrow because they're going to cap it off.

My tweets

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• Wed, 05:10: RT @andrewducker: Archaeologists find vast medieval palace buried under prehistoric fortress at Old Sarum http://t.co/WCNMNPXwRF
• Wed, 05:12: RT @guardian: Olive oil prices soar after bad harvest http://t.co/NhAqnlRdU3
• Wed, 05:16: RT @guardian: Google Glass review: useful – but overpriced and socially awkward http://t.co/8C9DiwjiaO @guardiantech
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• Wed, 07:09: Food! Glorious Food! http://t.co/bnbiiJfjCR
• Wed, 09:42: I'm not sayin'... http://t.co/5C05OFCcOx