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Rabbit-proof food

February 25, 2010

The next time you want to serve a meal that is easy to prepare, needs no utensils and requires a lick of the fingers for cleanup, you might consider bunny chow. And no, this does not involve carving up and cooking Bugs, Roger or any other rabbit. In fact, in its original form, it’s about [...]

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Eyeball eggs and moldy legs — two

June 26, 2009

My father knew how to suck eggs. Raw ones, through toothpick-sized holes he would pierce on the pointy sides in the shell. This sucking feat reliably made both my mother and me gag. Fortunately, when he was doing breakfast, he gave me my eggs cooked. Only this particular day, I didn’t feel even slightly fortunate. [...]

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Eyeball eggs and moldy legs — one

June 25, 2009

PICTURE the scene. My first vivid food memory. A string-bean kid about five years old, fair hair braided into two long plaits, alone in the dining room and seated at a large, oval, wood table. The shiny sort you can’t put your coffee mug on because it marks. If someone were to draw the scene [...]

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