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T Magazine
Video: My Madeleine | Deuki Hong
The chef of Sunday Bird in San Francisco remembers a childhood family tradition: Korean fried chicken for Thanksgiving (instead of turkey).My great grandfather who rode circuit in The Cripple Creek District of Colorado would say "anything but chicken when asked what he wanted for Sunday Dinner.
He is part of my history. I did not eat those dinners.
Pumpkin Pie and Mince Pie are my tradition. Roast Turkey
and dressing with pan gravy. Fresh Cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, yams and green peas with pearl onions.
Sweet cider from the Jerico mill and wine in later years.
Extended family as available.
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Business Day
Are Honey Nut Cheerios Healthy? We Look Inside the Box
America’s best-selling breakfast cereal has about nine times as much sugar as normal Cheerios. Sugar, brown sugar and honey are among its top six ingredients.They are toxic.
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Style
The Other Woman Speaks
A memorable essay recounted a man’s chance encounter (and coffee date) with the wife of his wife’s lover. But what did she make of the meeting?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Wren
I did not go.
Marla has almost understood my problem.
We must invite Her and her husband.
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T Magazine
Video: My Madeleine | Angela Dimayuga
The former chef of Mission Chinese Food in New York describes her take on garlic fried rice, a traditional Filipino breakfast staple.I can fake it.
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Crosswords & Games
Something Much-Wished-for
Joel Fagliano and Sam Ezersky play with words.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz
https://www.google.com/search?q=george+grosz&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTsOuntbjXAhXDRiYKHac4AaEQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxmz3RcNNBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QS1l1mSDSo
1972 was better than 1927
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Opinion
The Lose-Lose Life of the Female Comedian
In the world of comedy clubs and standup gigs, women are either treated as groupies or ignored.Yes.
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Style
When Your Uber Driver Brings a Time Machine
A woman is plunged into her tumultuous past when she gets a ride to the airport from a man intimately connected to her divorce.I live in isolation. I go to a basement in Higgins Hall South and to an empty house on the Gold Coast where I read the Times on line.
I kept trying to quit. I would go dead.
Marla shared a Pascal class with me. She wore a "Campus Crusade for Cuthulu It found Me." button.
I knew that world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskatonic_University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
We were lovers for almost four years.
She wanted to move forward. I did not.
She became a Jewish mother and includes me.
David is nervous. He needn't be.
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Style
On the Path to Empathy, Some Forks in the Road
What happens when your wife wants to be “unmarried” but still together? Essential oils and trying to butter up a dog, for starters."“My favorite enhancement.”"
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Opinion
For Wounded Vets’ Children, a Special Summer Week
Each year, Camp Corral offers children of wounded veterans a trip to sleepaway camp to let go of the stress of growing up too fast.A good idea.
"Scum recruited for drink."
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington,
The same cannot be said of most of the modern U.S. forces.
We do not have the draft to fill the other ranks or the press gangs
to crew the Navy.
High unemployment does the job without the upset for our wars of choice.
The indoctrination of "basic training" is effective after a century of practice.
The techniques of the Prussian army and the Foreign Legion work everywhere.
The other ranks of the military are one of the few places an underskilled
kid can support a family.
It is not peacetime and we are not in an existential war.
The Veterans Administration is underfunded and more soldiers are less than honorably separated from the services.
The less than honorable receive few benefits.
This is not good.
A mercenary army must be paid, exported or killed.
The street scenes of regency London are in train.
The spirit of Christmas present is coming.
Charles Dickens was a prophet.
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