Category Archives: Experimenting

Germanic.

I want to learn German. I’ve tried. I took a year of it in college. A boyfriend bought me a Get Fluent In German Quick 12-CD set (which solidified the fact I would never get through it all). He always used to remind me that I had it and that he spent a lot of [...]
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For now, au revoir.

I am on a hiatus of sorts. My writings are likely going to travel to other dimensions, not strictly related to food & a life of (un) luxury but more explorations of music, movement, and meanderings to which I will direct you. Please do be well. All my best Allison
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Homemade Dinners For Past-Due Holidays and Compromised Circumstances

Last week I conjured up a four course meal for my brother and his wife as a delayed Christmas present. They’d already drank their special red wine I bought especially for the meal (from Italian Wine Merchants), but had only used half the bottle of exquisite extra virgin olive oil. The can of oil packed [...]
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South American Alternatives to the Upset Stomach

Sometimes food makes you sick. That feeling, that awful awful feeling—you know the one when you wake up in the middle of the night partially consumed with a headache. At first. The moment you let the blood rush from your prostrate body to reach the tip of your head and the tip of your toes, [...]
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Red Beans: From Can, To City, To Mouth

Ah, the red bean cake, the kind of pastry I never thought I’d eat growing up Sicilian and German. Outside of sweet Asian pastries, I’ve tended to stay far away from the red beans: kidney beans don’t really do it for me. I’m more of a black, cannellini, or garbanzo kind of gal. They’re always [...]
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