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  • The Milk-Braised Pork Test

    The Milk-Braised Pork Test

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    You know those tests where they determine whether you’re gay or straight and they attach electrodes to your genitals and flash images in front of you to see whether naked men or women arouse you more? Well this post is like one of those tests, only there’s only one image and it’s the image you…

  • Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

    Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

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    I recall a movie from my childhood–“The Peanut Butter Solution”–at the end of which a young boy whose hair has fallen out (I don’t exactly remember why) enters a room filled with magical, sparkly, landscape paintings. The paintings, you soon learn, are enterable: whichever one he picks, he can walk into. And I felt like…