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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Four Ingredients — Pun Intended — Cookstr Needs To Be a Truly Viable Recipe Site

I recently interviewed for a position at the recipe site Cookstr. And…I made this joke on Facebook at the time, so, friends, bear with me: Like the Buffalo Bills in the 1990s and the Chicago Cubs in the 2003 NLCS, I … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

In Which I Allege Prime Meats Has No Clothes…Or is At Least Half-Naked…

I’ve been Yelping. Mostly because I realized I have opinions about local restaurants and it’s silly not to share them…even though I remain terrified someone is going to call me out, a la the Lucky purse disaster on Consumerist. I … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Road Trip Roundup, By the Numbers

2029: Miles we drove. 7: States we visited. Also, the number of days we were gone. 9: Episode of Dexter Season 5 that I found profoundly disappointing after watching it in hotel that had cable because I couldn’t wait for … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

What Makes a Banana Republic?

I’ll be perfectly honest: I wouldn’t have read this Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed if it wasn’t the Most-Emailed story on the Times’ site as of early Monday afternoon and I hadn’t thought, “Boy, what exactly *is* a banana republic?” According to … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

The Turkey That Wasn’t

Did you ever see that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond in which his mom made a tofurkey for Thanksgiving and it was all gelatinous and weird and hilarity ensued? Doesn’t this Baskin-Robbins cake remind you of it a little? Or … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Martha Reimagined

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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Baked Last Frontier

T and I were talking about Baked Alaska – he has never had it before — and I thought, “I wonder where the name came from…” et, voila: blog post. Per Wikipedia, “The name ‘Baked Alaska’ was coined at Delmonico’s … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Potential Rib Correction

T informs me that the ribs I had at Char No. 4 were short ribs, not spare ribs. I still don’t quite understand the difference between short ribs and spare ribs — other than one is beef and one is … Continue reading →
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Tasty Lacy's · 1Y ago

Goodbye, Libby’s (At Least For Now)

This year, I carved my first pumpkin in a long, long time. The last pumpkin I carved was based on advice from Martha Stewart (or the like) when I was working at a credit union in Fairbanks. My office held … Continue reading →
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