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Hoshigaki Season!

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Food, Food Preservation
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...rather than chugging those pumpkin spice lattes. We’ve got a row of seven store bought persimmons hanging in a south facing window and plans to start more. Here’s what they look like when completed. If you’ve never tried making hoshigaki, a kind of transcendent dried fruit product that’s very expensive to buy, I can report that it’s one of the more worthwhile DIY projects on this blog and we’ve got directions here. EaterLA has a post on different...

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I Made a Coffee Sandwich

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Food, Recipes
...and filtered water shop called Lu Sub that used to sit between a pet food store and a laundromat on the Glendale Boulevard traffic sewer in Silver Lake. Their sign promised “Coffee-Sandwich Drinking Water.” A friend and I used to speculate about what a “coffee sandwich” would consist of every time we went past the place. It took may years but I decided this month to bring some closure to this idle speculation. I based my prompt on the dessert san...

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Sandwiches of History

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Food
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...ut thinking about it and when it arrived I immediately went to the grocery store to procure ingredients. So far everything I’ve tried has been a winner, from the “Spanish Sandwich” of 1909 (sardines, garlic mayo and olives) to the simple “Mushroom Sandwich” of 1893 (mushrooms and blue cheese) to the “Salmon Club” of 1936 (a club sandwich with salmon instead of turkey). When Barry announced a nationwide book release tour I snapped up a ticket for t...

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Obsidian: A Free Note Taking App

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...bits of info, for instance, when I pick up a heater filter at the hardware store and need to remember the size. Graph view from example on web. One of the features that I did not expect to use but has ended up being transformative for me is the graph view, which shows, visually, connections between notes. It seemed like a gimmick until I used it to integrate two related sets of information for a project I’m working on. Immediately, I started to no...

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