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Content warning this is the pettiest recipe pet peeve, but:
when she lists ingredients that will go in at the same time, she will list wet ingredients before dry ingredients the use the same measuring tool. So my tablespoon with be covered in oil or whatever and I can't dip it into my nutritional yeast jar without cleaning and drying it first. If she listed the dry ingredients first, it would be no problem.
Content warning dinner plans
I fuckin love making vegan meat, if I can find yuba I'm gonna try the chicken breast stuffed with butternut squash and champagne pomegranate sauce TONIGHT
At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether …
Content warning Food
The first chapter is lactic acid fermentation -- I started four batches:
See yall in a week I guess!
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first …
Reading books out of the bibliography of the last book you read is the real recommendation algorithm
LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat …
well that was delightful
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
Content warning light spoilers to about half way through
I am really really hoping we aren't heading to a big love triangle between Piya, Kanai, and Fokir. Just absolutely not feeling any of that at all, living in hope that we don't go there but every time the smell of someone's skin gets described, I worry
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
I think I picked this up based on a review I saw here and I'm really liking it so far!
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with …
done with summer, not done with Sumer
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
This was great, and a well needed light diversion. Recommended!
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I'm listening to the Moby Dick Big Read version this time around
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
yes hello I am ready for low-emotional-stakes reading about the flavor profiles of different peppercorns, thank you
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is …
this book is great but whew, my next novel is going to be an order of magnitude less heavy
From the author who invented the Western genre comes one of the most iconic novels …
this book sure describes some landscapes, heck
Consists of Enheduanna's hymn, Nin-me-sar-ra, reconstructed from Sumerian cuneiform tablets, in transliteration, with English translation …
So far (six pages) this is much better than the previous Enheduanna book
"Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures" is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural …
This was so interesting! Definitely gonna reread some chapters