Saturday at the Market
The market opens at seven, and the best stalls are half empty by nine. I go early, with two cloth bags and no list, and let whatever looks best decide the week’s cooking.In late summer that means tomatoes in every…
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A Carbon-Steel Pan, Six Months In
I bought a plain carbon-steel pan to replace the third non-stick pan I had worn out in as many years. The first week I nearly gave up on it. The second week I started to understand it. Six months in,…
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What “Spring” Teaches About Colour
“Spring” is a short animated film from the Blender Animation Studio, released in 2019 and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. It follows a shepherd girl and her dog through a mountain landscape at the turn of the seasons.Watch…
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Concrete and Light
Concrete has a reputation for being cold. Spend an afternoon in a well-made concrete building and you may change your mind: few materials show light as honestly.A plain grey wall becomes a different surface every hour. In the morning it…
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Ten Minutes to a Better Salad
Most disappointing salads fail for the same few reasons: wet leaves, a dressing added too early, and nothing crunchy. All of them take minutes to fix.Dry the leaves properly. Water on the leaves dilutes the dressing and makes everything limp.Salt…
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A Month With a 75% Mechanical Keyboard
A 75% keyboard keeps the function row and the arrow keys but drops the number pad and squeezes everything else…
