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Category: Food
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So I am terrible about cooking in a systematic way. I cook by feel and taste most of the time. I love cookbooks, but I rarely make things as written more than once. I love them for the ideas, techniques and flavor combinations. The rest of the time I just throw things in the pot…
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I reviewed the Bride Test by Helen Hoang over at Love in Panels: Chastised for being unable to cry at his best-friend and cousin’s funeral, Khải comes to believe that he is unnaturally unfeeling, unable to love. Khải is actually autistic, a diagnosis his immigrant Vietnamese family mostly ignores, instead thinking him as simply a…
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A week ago I was walking around Montreal with a band of romance readers and writers. Stopping to shop and eat while discussing our favorite romance novels, twitter culture and just generally enjoying each other's company. I am still a bit amazed it actually came together. Last August my husband and I took a trip…
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Ever since Sophia Brown's husband died, she has been faking her way through her days. She feels lost. She doesn't taste the flavor in the perfect meals she makes, her mind wanders while she weeds, and she is in a rut, doing the same things over and over because it is familiar and comforting. Although she…
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Clio Whitmore is sick of waiting. Her intended decamped for the continent and a career with the foreign office as soon as the ink was dry on their engagement agreements. For the last eight years, Clio has has to endure the strictures placed on her by her family and the whispers of the ton. With…
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Last fall I had the opportunity to read this novel when it was serialized on the WattPad. I really enjoyed re-reading a few weeks ago over Labor day weekend. May is having a horrible weekend, her long-time boyfriend and NFL quarterback Dan’s tipsy and cringe-worthy public proposal incited her to stab him with a shrimp…
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