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Some soup-related news before we get into today’s recipe: I WROTE A COOKBOOK!!!!! 70+ soup recipes, categorised not by season/ingredient/course but rather by mood/situation/circumstance, to prove once and for all that whatever “it” may be, ✨There’s a Soup For That✨!!!! We’re talking Emotional Support Soups, Soups for When You Just Can’t, Soups to Impress, Soup as Medicine - the list goes on (and so do the soups).   It would fill me with immense joy and gratitude if you would pre-order a copy (or 3) HERE - pre-orders do SO MUCH for first-time writers such as myself (and you won’t be charged until the publication date in August).

Welcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it What’s Wrong with Episode 83: “Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!”? We’re Supposed to See Lindsay the Way Rory Does. But I Don’tby MeganOh, I miss the Sea Sprite Mo… ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ooa6rpJ6wpnnFqKlmpJmjsbSt2A%3D%3D

The most difficult aspect of writing these articles is not the research, the drafting, or coming up with ideas. The most difficult part of writing is scrabbling for the time to do so. Your support gives me time. Become a paid subscriber today. The longer I do this justice work the more I hear some version of the following unhelpful idea: “Both sides got some things wrong and both sides have work to do.

Justice Tripp is a rare figure. Having come to the surface with Trapped Under Ice, a brutal but deceptively genre-pushing hardcore band, Justice took the idea about a hundred steps further to form Angel Du$t—an impossible-to-define, sonic fuck-off to genre purists that also works as a love letter to the musical visionaries who inspired him to seek that kind of radical autonomy. Angel Du$t’s excellent new album, Brand New Soul, carries that vision even further.

When cleaning out my armoire the other day, I happened upon a very old tube of sexual lubricant (Yes, I realize that’s quite a lot of information for an opening sentence.). It was never used for its original, intended purpose, but still it made me feel nostalgic. Not for any sexual conquest that might have been, but rather because that blue, squeezable tube nabbed me my first James Beard Award nomination.

In a diary entry in 1910, while reproaching his education for doing him “great harm,” Franz Kafka jots down the following reflection:  “I do not want to hear this reproach [of mine] contradicted; since I have already heard too many contradictions, and since most of the contradictions, moreover, have refuted me, I include these contradictions in my reproach and now declare that my education and this refutation have done me great harm in some respects.

This is the building that will be converted into the Kalita Grill Greek Cafe. It’s the old Jack’s Pet Place building. On the Lafayette Urban Renewal Authority agenda for November 14, 2023, there is a presentation for a Site Plan and Architectural Review (SPAR) for 801 S Public Road. The SPAR application covers site improvements, two minor building additions, façade modifications, and a change in use to convert the building at 801 S.

If our native tomato had Kris Jenner as a manager, could it maybe have a shot at global grocering stardom? Or at least snag some of the glimmer where the likes of Roma and San Marzano enjoy the spotlight?  Lately, I’ve been thinking more about the tiis our humble kamatis has endured from my long history of mocking it. Traditionally, a native tomato isn’t so much grown but allowed to exist.

When I first arrived in Vancouver in 2018, practically everyone I met said, “you have to meet Karen.” Eventually I did, and we quickly became friends, and eventually close collaborators. In the middle of the pandemic, when I was feeling pretty lost, she helped revitalize me. Few people I have met are as broad as she was, able to say something smart and surprising about pretty much anything we ever talked about from politics to music to science to technology.