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  • How To Host An Indoor Clambake

    How To Host An Indoor Clambake

    My usual dinner party process goes like this: a day or two before a dinner party, I grab a handful of cookbooks off my towering cookbook shelf and casually thumb through them. The goal is not to frantically search for the perfect recipe, it’s to let the perfect recipe come to me. Usually that happens…

  • How To Always Get A Seat at a Crowded Coffee Shop

    How To Always Get A Seat at a Crowded Coffee Shop

    Every day I go to a coffee shop to work on my book. And every day I witness the same phenomenon: people poke their heads through the door, look at all the crowded tables, sigh a heavy sigh and leave. I want to yell out: “Don’t leave! You’re giving up too easily!” But since most…