November 25, 2024
My Sourdough Starters are on Five Continents
Sharing the art and science of sourdough is fun and so is sharing starters.
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November 20, 2024
Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies for Ice Cream Sandwiches
Unless you pay very close attention, you won't taste the sourdough in the cookie. The long fermentation time, however, does cut the overall sweetness of...
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November 20, 2024
In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy *** (of 4)
Investigative journalist Tom Klay works for a renowned globally recognized photo-journal called Sovereign but is really National Geographic.
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November 4, 2024
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides **** (of 4)
In 1776, Great Britain's King George sent his Navy to put down a rebellion fomented by British colonists on the eastern shore of North America....
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November 4, 2024
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead *** (of 4)
No one does a better job of capturing an era (early 1970s), a place (Harlem), or characters. New York City is on the verge of...
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November 4, 2024
I Hate it Here, Please Vote for Me by Matthew Ferrence *** (of 4)
Matt Ferrence, a colleague of mine, and professor of English at Allegheny College, perfectly captures what it feels like to be a liberal in the...
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October 1, 2024
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro *** (of 4)
Spooky. Kids in a residential British school called Hailsham are raised to be donors. Their days are filled with what you would expect: studying, confidential...
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October 1, 2024
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese **** (of 4)
In the fictional riverside town of Parambil, in Kerala, India, 12-year-old Big Ammachi is taken from her home at the beginning of the 20th century...
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September 14, 2024
Becoming Eve by Abby Chava Stein **** (of 4)
If ever there were an experiment, god forbid, that could demonstrate how we are born with inbred sexual identities and sexual predilections, this would be...
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September 14, 2024
Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander *** (of 4)
Feh, roughly translated from Yiddish, means yuck. It's what you might say to yourself upon opening a tupperware container of leftovers that has sat on...
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