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News, Updates, and Miscellany

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Good news! And some reminders, too.

The big item of interest — the thing that has driven me to metablogging — is that Elizabeth, author of the Bread and Honey blog and sometime guest blogger here, has agreed to become a regular Twice Cooked contributor. Which means that, beginning in the next couple of weeks, you’ll see her name pop up in the author field somewhat more regularly, unaccompanied by the italicized mini-biography that ordinarily prefaces posts by folks who are not me. Continue reading →

A View From The Big Easy

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A View From the Big Easy

So this happened: I was away at the meetings of the American Folklore Society — in New Orleans, of all places — and well-sheltered from the storm. But Sarah was here in Philadelphia. And from my relative proximity, I had ample opportunity to worry — to imagine her ambling about a heath, blustering, with only the cats to keep her company: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples, Continue reading →

Supporting the Creative Commons

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A couple of months ago, I diverged a bit from the light chatter you’ve come to expect here at Twice Cooked to promote a cause — Kiva.org. I contended, as I recall, that as long as I have this tiny soapbox of a web site, and as long as I have (at least some) regular visitors, I might as well use that meager position to do something good. And Kiva — and microlending — are certainly that. Well, today I Continue reading →

We’ll Be Right Back, After These Brief Messages …

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We'll be right back, after these brief messages

This seems to have become my week off from blogging.  I didn’t intend it.  I just sort of got busy with other things, and haven’t had a whole lot of time to cook or to write.  So I’m going with it. But worry not.  Twice Cooked will be back very soon with lots of new and interesting content.  There’ll be some guest posts, maybe something new in Politics, and some other stuff that I can’t talk about yet, but that Continue reading →

Eastern State Penitentiary

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Eastern State Penitentiary

In addition to grilling asparagus this holiday weekend, and watching Joe Biden deliver some of the most honest, admirable Memorial Day remarks of which I am aware (more on this later — maybe), I had the opportunity to get out of the house and peep about Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. For those who don’t know, Eastern State Penitentiary is a historic site near Center City Philadelphia (in North Philly, actually). It opened up in 1829 and closed in 1971, and Continue reading →

Microlending at Kiva.org

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I posted this elsewhere online a couple of weeks ago. But it occurs to me that I ought to mention it here too. Kiva.org — the microlending website — is offering a special while-supplies-last promotion where, if you sign up for an account and start making loans, they’ll give you an extra $25.00 to get you going. It’s funded, they say, by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. He (or she) intended to give people one more incentive to Continue reading →

Salem Witch Trials Memorial

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I can imagine you all in my mind’s eye — right now, as I write — tapping your collective foot and looking at your collective timepiece, sighing a collective sigh, and proclaiming in a huff: he’s late!. I can also imagine that you haven’t noticed. Not. At. All. Either way, it’s true. I am late in making a post. But I am late for a very good reason. I’ve been off, in my academic capacity, at the meetings of the Continue reading →

Twice Cooked: The Newest Nominee for “The Homies 2012″

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It looks, thanks to intrepid friend-of-the-blog Beth, like our own dear Twice Cooked has received a last-minute nomination for a 2012 Homie award in the category of “Best Food Photography on a Blog.”  I could hardly begrudge you for not wanting to go out of your way to make a whole new account on a whole new web site just to help me out.  But I would encourage you, really, to do just that. Go!  Make an account at theKitchn!  Continue reading →

Cate Blanchett, Photography, and Mimesis

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So … a non-food-related aside: Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer made this post a few days ago about the March / April cover of Intelligent Life, a European satellite magazine of The Economist, which features an image of Cate Blanchett, untouched by the Photoshop brush. Very daring, he calls it. And then he writes: It is a “curious sign of the times” that a photograph could be unusual for being just a photograph, isn’t it? Some of you will Continue reading →

Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia

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Sagrada Familia

Food blogging will recommence shortly, with a new guest post, and with some extensive musings from me about the legs of pigs.  But for now, you may consider this my Christmas card to all of you. These images are from the interior of the Antoni Gaudí designed Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, in Barcelona.  I have seen many pictures, over the years, from the outside.  But I was entirely unprepared for this. I only wish that my Continue reading →