Kevin, home alone

A sabiki hook

I’ve always been easy to understand. Your first impression of me is guaranteed to be absolutely accurate simply because I have no way of camouflaging my blunderbuss of a personality. I mean what I say and I say what I mean not because I see any particular virtue in it, but because I am temperamentally [...]

How to deep-fry an egg

A Fry Baby, with jam for scale

First, get a Fry Baby. A Fry Baby is the world’s smallest deep fryer, and we got ours at a Yankee swap hosted by our friends Tommy and Ali, for which all the guests were instructed to bring something that’s been lying around the house for ages but never used. We brought a platter we’d [...]

The black art of bluefish

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A note to my readers:  I’m very excited to tell you that, as of today, some of my work will also be appearing in the Huffington Post’s food section.  This is the first of what I hope to be a long and popular series on First-Hand Food .   Uncertainty is the mother of superstition, and getting food [...]

My week of pickling dangerously

Refrigerator beets, with greens and onions

I’ll eat anything pickled. Take the woodiest, stringiest vegetable – hell, take shoe leather – and soak it in brine for a while, and I’m fine with it. And since we seem to produce a lot of woody, stringy vegetables around here, pickling is the natural solution. First came the beets. While they weren’t the [...]

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