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Baking By Flavor: the review

Posted on February 6, 2005 Written by Diane

I got Baking By Flavor by Lisa Yockelson (which I heard about because it was recommended early and often by Zarah at Food & Thoughts) out of the library today and brought it to the park to read while the kids played and Darin recovered from … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Books and Magazines, Cooking and Food

Baking some bread

Posted on February 6, 2005 Written by Diane

Tamar has always liked to bake her own bread, but I've always pictured it as being labor-intensive: standing there for hours (I thought it took hours, honestly) kneading this batch of dough, really working those forearm muscles, never getting out of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Cooking and Food

What I heard about Iraq

Posted on February 6, 2005 Written by Diane

What a brilliant collection of quotes: In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get 'bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Politics

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