Preparing things simply is deceptively difficult, since there is no way to cover up our mistakes. edward espe brown, tassajara

a view of overliner, from mit's 150th anniversary celebrations.

"When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected....

this generative sequencer is very neat. it is a set of rules that "produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up...

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michel de certeau, in the practice of everyday life   (an unfairly neglected book) , makes a useful distinction between strategies and tacti...

on the one hand: the documentation on this thing is awful. the evaporator flask (= $$$) is missing. on the other hand: it's a rotav...

[thx jenna ]

from the department of frozen and dried foods #2: chicken stock (7/11/2009)(!), koyadofu (9/27/2010), buckwheat soba (6/10/2010), red miso (...

the divine comedy is a frankly stunning collection of installations by ai weiwei (last year's unilever artist at the tate bankside, w...

today, an archaeology of the freezer, in which we discover that a thick layer of oil is effective at preventing freezer burn. cilantro, al...

The love which brings the right answer is an exercise of justice and realism and really  looking . The difficulty is to keep the attention f...

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(thx corky, for the invitation. slides are here .)

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Michel Butor says that to travel is to write, because to travel is to read. This can be developed further: To write is to travel, to write i...

Ariel : Hey     where did you disappear to? Someplace good? me : ha     no     busy and unproductive Ariel : acceptance of that is t...

We're not big fans of what I consider "vertical" ambition—that is, the usual career-path trajectory, in which a newbie moves u...

the awesome bread device  died catastrophically yesterday while baking a 25% rye sourdough. i brought the carcass to judy motzkin  and sh...

that's not butter.

judy motzkin's cloche slays it again . after various experiments with long-retardation, i began to fool around with rough-milled rye an...

laphroaig, vanilla ice cream, and a baked custard. eleni roasted a leg of lamb last night, and julieta made this to follow. it suffered a l...

in case you are unaware, this is a photo of a real live copy of modernist cuisine . from a 25 minute rapid flipthrough, the book is as pr...