“and whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”

The lines:

“My name is [first and last name].
I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality…”

“I hope this message finds you well” guarantees it’s a message you have no interest in receiving

From one of my favorite cookbooks, Beard’s American Cookery. Procured for $3 at a library sale from long ago and full of wonders, like—in addition to his cheese and tomato pie and various biscuit recipes—8 different recipes for fried chicken

Is there no shame anymore?

Those are the best!

Reimagining the charcuterie board

Love him. All I listen to now in all his incarnations.

Thank you!

The word after your name, “jee uhm,” means “wrote” or “written by.” Had to ask my Mom about that.

Congratulations!! Your kimchi tho—made by “Vadasz”?? Love how your name was spelled out in Korean characters & syllables on the spine—“Eh dum Suh Mee Suh”

Loved reading this, every single day of it.

“There is a simple word for this feeling, which we sometimes use too casually yet…is immortal in itself. ‘What will survive of us is love,’ the poet Philip Larkin wrote. Not the quick and fleeting kind of love, but rather love as an overwhelming embrace, a memorial of the heart.”