often, what i really want is a little place that isn't all hyped-up and which gives me the good stuff. it's always a struggle: te...

via youtube.com it's the transformers! these blocks, ladies and gentlemen, are real. stop motion is such a wondrous thing. the vid...

via youtube.com mugaritz is one of the vanguard restaurants (the owner worked at el bulli before setting up on his own). their kitc...

via vimeo.com by sonia levy and juliette hamon damourette Posted via web from flavourcountry

apparently, the flowers will be on display only until they die completely.

the fifteenth floor of william james hall, at sherry hour.

via youtube.com not quite everything, but with brilliant little comic twists. thx ben Posted via web from flavourcountry

via vimeo.com rob carter's paper cutout visual history of charlotte NC. monty python-esque and worth seeing. Posted via web f...

TONIGHT : Mon, Feb 8, 6pm. TAMPOPO, in the Adams Pool Theater in Harvard Square ( map ). Free and open to the public. Introduced by Tom Le...

the skillet pizza article ( AFC story ; detailed instructions ; primordial origins ) ran on the atlantic's food channel earlier this we...

nothing better than waking up in sheets line-dried in the cold. (and it's been cold.)

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48 points by edw519 9 hours ago | link | parent If it worked for Leonardo da Vinci, maybe it could work for me. The next time I...

"Seymour once said to me – in a crosstown bus, of all places – that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differen...

american mine (carlin, nv 1), from the mining project .

francisco migoya is an amusing individual. One of the strangest desserts I've had was simply a long rectangle of meringue with the name...

seems to be a theme around these parts. observations from repeated attempts at cooking the same thing: meat cooks faster and tastier on a ve...

i got a text message from ike this afternoon, midway through a day spent in tantalizing proximity to, but not actually in the presence of, ...

beverages : several weeks ago, hh was passing through on his way back to the exotic orient. we managed to get drinks at drink late in the ...

for general purposes, the egg consists of shell, whites, and yolk (by mass, approximately 10%, 59%, and 31% respectively). the average mass ...

browsershots will use a network of distributed computers running various browsers on different operating systems to do cross-browser testi...

ben's new year's resolution is to smell better.

caleb charland at the stone crop gallery .

[The Tarahumara] know that every step forward, every convenience acquired through the mastery of a purely physical civilization, also implie...

by hermann hesse, is seemingly endlessly quotable. he also seems to enjoy the use of parenthetical dashes as much as i do. hesse , some book...

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what, you ask, is this slightly out-of-focus cube of meat? it is the brain child of kevin rafferty and mimi rancatore: a block of pork belly...

long, slow cooking has many virtues, not the least of which is gelatin extraction. having accidentally left a pot of assorted chicken bones ...

there are few things better than a broth made of long-simmered meat of quality. whole foods has a special on large pieces of shoulder steak ...