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Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
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The secret to mixing macarons — You need to nail their light-as-air texture, crisp outer shell, and signature foot at the base. And doing so often comes down to how you mix the macaron batter, a technique known as macaronage.
Anne-Marie Slaughter — 'Unfinished Business.' Why women still can't have it all, and what we'd need to change. https://www.annemarieslaughter.com/
British Book Awards: Virginia Giuffre’s memoir wins top book prize — Nobody's Girl, published last year, detailed Giuffre's encounters with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
The best everyday sandwich bread (that's secretly whole wheat!) — If you want a loaf that’s tall, tender, and packed with whole grains, there’s only one option: the Everyday Bread.
Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel — Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—before the pandemic, before 2016, before the internet, before…
How to make your own wedding cake — If you do decide to go on this DIY-route, it’s imperative you know what to expect and have a game plan. Here’s a good place to start.
Baker documented every time her croissants failed over a year, cross-referenced it with humidity and oven temp — the spreadsheet is somehow more useful than any cookbook I own.
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
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Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think — all the beans that's fit to spill
California county scam ad lawsuit adds to mounting Meta legal woes — Santa Clara accuses Meta of failing to regulate scam adds, months after landmark ruling against social media giants.