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Monthly Archives: December 2005

Pompeii: You can’t take it with you?

29-Dec-05

We’ve been in Chicago (well, Wheaton) IL this week, and on Monday the Andersons and the Anderkoos swung by the Field Museum, which is currently hosting a blockbuster exhibit on Pompeii.
The exhibit itself was decent, perhaps surprisingly lackluster until you
realize that the Field is a museum of natural history, not social history
(though, despite our new [...]

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Wasabi Beets

14-Dec-05

I’m what you might call a culinary optimist. For example, in
restaurants I try to order something I haven’t had before — the
weirder or more experimental, the better. I’m also constantly buying
foods that I dislike, mostly for health reasons, but also on the
continuing hope that maybe this time I’ll find a better way to make it.
(Exception: [...]

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