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The Sound of Fast Food

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Thoughtstylings
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...ickly coming to a close. There was a day when cellphones, cordless phones, baby monitors and all kinds of other radio transmissions were accessible to anyone with a cheap scanner. Even police and fire departments are starting to encrypt transmissions. This particular In and Out got so popular that they switched to having an employee in the parking lot with a tablet to take orders which brought an end to our office fun. I invite any musicians in th...

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How to Make Stock

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Food, How-to
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...if it’s organic. 1 or 2 carrots, chopped into a few pieces (or a bunch of baby carrots-that half bag drying out in the fridge, perhaps?) 1 or 2 celery stalks, also chopped into a couple of pieces A handful of parsley or parsley stems 1 small potato, roughly chopped, skin is fine Any mushrooms or mushroom trimmings you have. Shiitake stems, particularly, add great flavor. A garlic clove or two, if you like. Herbs, if you have them: a bay leaf, a s...

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Citified Parched Corn

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Food, Food Preservation, How-to, Recipes
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...Then I put the nibblets in our fancy electric dehydrator. I dried a bag of baby green peas while I was at it, because I thought they might parch nicely, too. Fresh frozen corn is, obviously, very different than dried-on-the-cob corn. The fresh kernels are sliced off the cob, so they are open ended. They are missing the white part, the germ. Whole dried corn kernels will look more like popcorn kernels. And as they are whole, they act a little like...

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The problem with polar fleece: it’s in the ocean, it’s in sea creatures, it’s on our plates

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Domesticus
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...ap fleece goods have become ubiquitous at chain stores, in everything from baby clothing to home decoration. As a result, at this point, only the most militant lentil eating do-gooder, the most pure of the pure, do not have at least one polar fleece (polyester fleece) pullover in their wardrobe or blanket on their bed. I have a few polar fleece items, and as with all artificial fibers, I knew when I bought them that these things will never decompo...

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