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It’s Not About the Soup

delicata or della cotta, it's good squash

delicata or della cotta, it's good squash



This post is not about the soup that I made last night. Not that it was a bad soup. Missy even ate the beet greens that were in it after only a few moments of hesitant prodding with her spoon. It’s not about the soup because I made the soup in a hurry. I was sick. I’d spent the weekend blowing my nose a lot and talking in the way that people do when their heads are great sacks of mucous. I felt ready for work on Monday, rode in, and suffered some embarrassment when a co-worker caught me staring blankly at my personal email for, like, seven or eight minutes. Having thus obtained independent verification that I was not in a productive state, I packed it in and went home early.

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Do Not Try This At Home Unless You Want to Die a Horrible Death

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One of the small truths that writing a food blog has brought home to me is that they can’t all be delicious. It’s the tendency of the food blogger to err towards the Martha Stewart, to make every meal lovely and wonderful with bright, authentic flavors surrounded by the sort of blown-out backgrounds that suggest the catalogs of furniture stores slightly more expensive than you can actually afford. White scarves, green fields. Thoughtful expressions, balanced with bright, laughing smiles. Bottles of herb-infused oils. You know, advertising.

This is not that kind of blog.

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