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Twice Cooked: The Newest Nominee for “The Homies 2012″
(via http://www.thekitchn.com) It looks, thanks to intrepid friend-of-the-blog Beth, like our own dear Twice Cooked has received a last-minute nomination for a 2012 Homie award in the category of “Best...
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Salem Witch Trials Memorial
I can imagine you all in my mind’s eye — right now, as I write — tapping your collective foot and looking at your collective timepiece, sighing a collective sigh, and proclaiming in a huff: he’s late!....
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Eastern State Penitentiary
In addition to grilling asparagus this holiday weekend, and watching Joe Biden deliver some of the most honest, admirable Memorial Day remarks of which I am aware (more on this later — maybe), I had...
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A View From The Big Easy
So this happened: Via NASA Goddard Photo and Video — on Flickr. I was away at the meetings of the American Folklore Society — in New Orleans, of all places — and well-sheltered from the storm. But...
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Help Replace the Twice Cooked Camera
The end, dear friends, is nigh. After three and a half years of daily use — after tens of thousands of photographic exposures, and no small amount of detrimental exposure to flour, hot oil, and all...
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Fall Fungus, by the Wissahickon Creek
Ever since Elizabeth and Hana each made their posts about foraging last summer, I have been unable to turn off the part of my brain that notices interesting mushrooms. This one I found poking out of...
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Fowl is Fair
The residents of the McNeil Avian Center at the Philadelphia Zoo were particularly friendly on this visit. It is an excellent exhibit, anyhow, in which most of the birds roam free with the guests,...
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Spring is here!
Philadelphia’s weather report may call for one last coughing gasp of snow on Tuesday, but in my house, it’s feeling particularly vernal. The first seedlings — cucumbers, I think — have pushed their...
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Walt Whitman, Now in 3D
There is no originality at all in this, but as part of a quick experiment, I’ve taken a stereo card from the 19th century, and turned it into an animated GIF. I really like the effect. It looks very...
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Olympus 12mm at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
This is (alas!) not food. Food will definitely make its return to this here cooking blog. But in the meantime, I spent yesterday afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a new (to me) camera...
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