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  • June 2020 (1)
    • 01: Dear Diary
  • May 2020 (9)
    • 15: Pink.
    • 08: Hug Atlas
    • 06: Coffee At Home
    • 06: Covidity
    • 06: Narrative Ecology
    • 06: Immovable Feasts
    • 06: Heavy, Or Light?
    • 06: Sad Pandemic Latte
    • 06: If I Live Too Long, I’m Afraid I’ll Die: A letter from the editor
  • March 2017 (8)
    • 21: Introduction
    • 21: Sour Mash
    • 21: Winston Dodge, Monster Hunter
    • 21: Darkness On The Edge Of Troy
    • 21: 2-23-17
    • 21: Queer Futurity
    • 21: Owl Lamp
    • 21: Don’t You Shut Out The Lights And I’ll Light Mine
  • January 2017 (6)
    • 01: Animal Cruelty
    • 01: The Unquiet American
    • 01: Spilled Milk
    • 01: Move Forward, Look Within
    • 01: The Conscience of the King
    • 01: Kyoto Protocol
  • October 2016 (5)
    • 14: Dancing on a Hot Skillet
    • 14: My Kitchen
    • 14: Going To Ground
    • 14: Eating Lunch Alone
    • 14: Quack Low, Sweet Chariot
  • August 2016 (5)
    • 22: The Weather Underground
    • 22: Pour Lost Ones
    • 22: Bakery On Premises
    • 22: Canada, Comfort Queers, and Cynicism
    • 22: Passing Time At The Plaza
  • June 2016 (7)
    • 10: Seen
    • 10: Last Call
    • 10: My Pizza ‘Tis Of Thee
    • 10: Vacation
    • 10: A Pie, We Suppose
    • 10: Riddle Roundup
    • 10: The Once And Future King
  • July 2014 (6)
    • 14: The River Squid
    • 14: Spell
    • 14: Lyrids
    • 14: A Box Opens
    • 14: Apache Chief and Little Bighorn
    • 14: Untitled
  • May 2014 (6)
    • 14: The Ancient Egyptians
    • 14: The Good Part
    • 14: Parts of (Chinese) Speech
    • 14: Beacons from Pangaea
    • 14: Nothing at all Whole or Shut
    • 14: Unconditional Surrender
  • March 2014 (7)
    • 17: Why Can’t I be a Bureaucrat?
    • 17: You Tell Me
    • 17: A Hurdy Gurdy Song
    • 17: Guenevere, A Portrait
    • 17: Splitting
    • 17: The Grease Fire
    • 17: Up For Air
  • January 2014 (6)
    • 18: Dorothy’s Ever After
    • 18: I Was Hungry
    • 18: Before and After
    • 18: Clean
    • 18: A Bandage Made of Caviar
    • 18: The Trappestine
  • September 2013 (5)
    • 30: The King of Sola Mesa
    • 30: The Melon Thief
    • 30: The Cream of Unknowing
    • 30: Hungry
    • 30: Fatherless in Ypsilanti
  • August 2013 (9)
    • 19: Woodsorrel
    • 19: Like My Chowder, The Air Is Too Salty
    • 19: Mahango and Mutete
    • 19: Epazote: A Rhoda No Longer
    • 19: Lobster
    • 19: “I know what you ate last summer…And the summer before that, And the summer before that…”
    • 19: A Job Well Done
    • 19: Brief History
    • 19: Howard
  • July 2013 (8)
    • 19: Portland, Oregon: Creation Myth of a Culinary Darling
    • 19: In The Beginning
    • 19: Roll of Mustard, Hear My Cry
    • 17: The Unfinished History of You and How You Ate
    • 17: Eating Like a Narcissist: An Introduction
    • 17: An Account of the First Annual Estero, Florida Billybon Festival, and What Occurred There
    • 17: Out of the Arm of One Loaf…
    • 16: A Culinary Childhood in Three Verses
  • June 2013 (6)
    • 24: What We Talk About When We Talk About Sandwiches
    • 24: Paella For One
    • 24: I Think I Can’t
    • 24: Potluck
    • 24: Daily and Supersubstantial
    • 24: Apprentice, Eating.
  • May 2013 (8)
    • 17: Secret Handshake
    • 17: Protect the Freshness is Over
    • 17: Burning Ring of (CSA) Fire
    • 17: Asparagus officinalis
    • 17: Potatoes, Comrade
    • 17: Taproot
    • 17: The Tenacity of the Pea Plant
    • 17: Worm Castings and Cat Pee: Journal of a Newbie Gardener
  • April 2013 (13)
    • 18: The Woods
    • 18: The Mouth’s Delights
    • 18: Wax and Wane
    • 18: Just Make Cookies
    • 18: Ralph’s Shirt
    • 18: One Mile South
    • 18: The Fifth Year
    • 18: The Plum Thief
    • 18: Too Much Trouble Tea
    • 18: What April Opens
    • 18: A Fino, A Benzo, an Oloroso
    • 18: I Want To Tell You Why I Sometimes Cry In The Produce Aisle
    • 18: To The Teeth
  • March 2013 (11)
    • 18: Family Common Eats
    • 18: Oh Canada!
    • 18: Cherimoya
    • 18: Blood, Guts, And All The Rest
    • 18: CREPES!…..Or Not
    • 18: La Dolce Vita, Deep Fried
    • 18: Hawaii Five-D’Oh
    • 18: A Trip For The Almost But Not Even Remotely Famously Food Rich
    • 18: Four Narrow Escapes
    • 18: The Night Market
    • 18: The Long Hill
  • February 2013 (9)
    • 14: A Final Resting Place For The Loved And Lost
    • 14: Sugar.
    • 14: La Petite Auberge
    • 14: The 3 Musketeers’ Lament: A Failed Love Triangle
    • 14: It’s Not You, It’s Me or Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
    • 14: Rax Redux
    • 14: Many Ingenious Lovely Things
    • 14: Mi Amore
    • 14: Gone, Fishing.
  • January 2013 (16)
    • 21: Wild Goose Chase, Resolved.
    • 21: Ambitious Kitchen 2013: A Resolution for a Better You
    • 21: On Eating, 2013
    • 21: Kitchen Resolutions 2013
    • 21: Resolutions for Inveterate Foodies — 2013 Worksheet (please print)
    • 21: Henry Dreams of Barbecue (A Brooklyn Day)
    • 21: 10 Justifications for Eating Out: A List of New Year’s Anti-Resolutions
    • 21: Back In The U.S. (peanut butter edition)
    • 03: Burnt Ends
    • 03: Without A Title
    • 03: The Christmas Pudding
    • 03: Less Potato
    • 03: The End of Meals: A Meditation on Eating at the Edge of the Mayan Apocalypse
    • 03: The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
    • 03: Boxed, Canned, Or Frozen
    • 02: How I Became A DIY Burnout
  • November 2012 (8)
    • 24: Comfort Me With Sharp Objects
    • 24: With Nary A Banana
    • 24: Following Your Coffee Muse To A Better Bean
    • 24: Season One, Episode Six
    • 24: Putting You Off Your Grub
    • 24: Big Night
    • 24: Responses to the Curious Reader Who May Not Yet Have Watched Babette’s Feast
    • 24: The Customer Is Always Wrong: Restaurant Breakfasts In Film
  • October 2012 (7)
    • 22: Pamela Puts Her Nose In: Three Beers For The Autumnal Imbiber
    • 22: Pumpkin King: Searching For the Perfect Fall Brew
    • 22: The Most Powerful Hour
    • 22: Terms of Enbeerment: Towards A Lexicon of Beery Sayings
    • 22: ‘Lite’ Protection
    • 22: Lovely Day for A Guinness
    • 22: Da White Pint: A Ghost Story
  • September 2012 (10)
    • 17: The Whole Wide World
    • 17: Somewhere Between Blue And Orange
    • 17: First World Hunter Gatherer: A Soundtrack For The Solitary Shopper
    • 17: Grandma’s Feather Bed
    • 17: Music For Forks and Knives
    • 17: The Sounds of Silence
    • 17: Knobs And Dials
    • 17: Everything’s Conventional
    • 17: With My Mind On My Oven, And My Oven On My Mind
    • 17: Stone Avenue
  • August 2012 (10)
    • 16: Little Green Knife
    • 16: The Incredible High-End Bird Crap Scooping Jar Opener
    • 16: Spoon, Man
    • 16: Coffee Chronicles: When Things Go Wrong
    • 16: The Scoop
    • 16: Spatula of Salvation
    • 16: Frontier Chef
    • 16: Silver Spoons: Remembering A Well-Set Table
    • 16: Tending to a Case of Grad School-Itis
    • 16: Eight
  • July 2012 (7)
    • 20: Forbidden Fruit: But Can You Eat It?
    • 20: Are Ya Achin’?
    • 20: Can’taloupe
    • 20: Farm Share Survival Tips
    • 20: In Praise of Garnish
    • 20: Stank
    • 19: Thai Me Up, Thai Me Down
  • June 2012 (10)
    • 25: For the Love of the Dark Virgin (Chocolate)
    • 25: Onion
    • 25: Arlene Brokaw: Inspired Farming
    • 25: In the Jaws
    • 25: Mirella’s Kitchen
    • 25: The Spectrum
    • 25: The Dregs
    • 25: Cult Classics
    • 25: A Tongan Feast
    • 25: Nothing But Some Beans And Rice
  • May 2012 (8)
    • 13: Making Pancakes
    • 13: Strange Mother Tongue: Unexpected Stories Of Unusual Liqueurs
    • 13: Ode To Mother Grape
    • 13: Marie-Christine
    • 13: The Mother Of Invention: A Reluctant Confession
    • 13: The Womb Of My Discontent
    • 13: Open Kitchen, Be My Mother
    • 13: Just Like Mama Used To Make
  • April 2012 (8)
    • 20: Notable And Potable Vol. 19: A Rum For Dr. Jane
    • 19: No Booze For You, or Why Would a Craft Beer Bar Close Early Every Night?
    • 19: Cervo
    • 19: Suspicion Confirmed
    • 19: How To Pound A Moose
    • 19: What The Dickens
    • 19: Meat Is Murder
    • 19: In Between
  • March 2012 (9)
    • 16: Please Pass The Euphemism
    • 16: Eating Icons
    • 16: Goat
    • 16: Hunting For A Woodless Veggie Burger
    • 16: Notable And Potable Vol. 18: This IS Your Mother’s Bone Luge
    • 16: Sea Meat
    • 16: Big Buck Hunter Down Under
    • 16: The Birthday Gift
    • 16: Stalking The Wild Hungarian Bitters
  • February 2012 (9)
    • 14: Caramel Apple, Dulce Filled, Burning Spoon
    • 14: The Best Part, Give Or Take
    • 13: Notable And Potable Vol. 17: The Spirits Are Willing, And The Flesh Is At Cocktail Week
    • 13: Oysters In Your Mustache: The Rise and Inevitable Future Decline of the Cocktail and Oyster Bar
    • 13: Tropic of Cutlet
    • 13: Drinking Alone With Attempted Blogger
    • 13: Agaricus the Champ(ignon)
    • 13: You Say ‘Salud’ I Say ‘Satan’: Satanic Feasting In Early Modern Europe
    • 13: The Meal: Much More Than Eating
  • January 2012 (1)
    • 16: Notable And Potable Vol.16: “Oh Did You Guys Say ‘Myrrh?’ Because I Brought Byrrh.”
  • December 2011 (4)
    • 28: Don’t Mess with Tradition, or How Not to Make a Manhattan
    • 09: Pamela Pennywhistle Looks Hard At Your Holiday (Finds It Rather Wanting)
    • 04: Ask Rennie Vol. 8: Holiday Hoo-Ha
    • 03: Pleasure Does Not Discriminate.
  • November 2011 (2)
    • 22: Tequila Mockingbird, Or Imbibe In Haste And Repent In Houston
    • 09: Notable And Potable Vol. 15: One Drink If By RV, Two If By First Class: Converging On Cocktail Week
  • October 2011 (2)
    • 26: Live Culture: The Slow Food Cheese Festival 2011
    • 20: Notable And Potable Vol. 14: Cross-Country Cruise Culminating In Cocktails
  • September 2011 (2)
    • 01: Gullet
    • 01: Notable And Potable Vol. 13: Sure You Can Can, But Here Are Some Tipple Tips
  • August 2011 (6)
    • 22: Leftovers
    • 19: Notable And Potable Vol. 12: My Fair JÄGER
    • 16: Cheese Plate
    • 11: Not Sand, But Self-Sufficiency: Italian Mountains, Italian Cheese
    • 03: The Abbreviated Edible Fellowship: Marilla Cuthbert’s Red Currant Wine.
    • 03: Shaker.
  • July 2011 (4)
    • 27: Farm Aria: From Opera To Overalls, A Conversation With Amanda Dumont.
    • 23: Pine Mouth: A Terrible Poem.
    • 21: Ask Rennie Vol. 7: Death For Dinner
    • 15: Notable And Potable Vol. 11: Drinking To Forget (About Pestilence And Pathogens).
  • June 2011 (13)
    • 30: Survival Cheese
    • 24: Notable And Potable Vol. 10: Reaching Your Boozing Altitude: Tips For Tipsy Traveling
    • 16: Break-Up Poems: The End of Love, in Food.
    • 10: Abbreviated Edible Fellowship: Turkish Delight From The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
    • 10: Thirty Certain Clever Tricks For Your Outdoor Party.
    • 08: A Bream Deferred.
    • 08: June Bug Lust: Adventures of a Gastronomically-Inclined Field Botanist
    • 08: Ask Rennie Vol. 6: Secret Gardens
    • 03: Notable and Potable Vol. 9: Looking Like A Supermodel, Thinking Like A Scientist
    • 03: Early Morning. Big Sur.
    • 03: No. 37 Italian Cheese
    • 01: Abbreviated Edible Fellowship: Saffron Cake from The Dark is Rising
    • 01: I Expect You To Diet, Mr. Bond: The Man With The Golden Gun
  • May 2011 (16)
    • 28: Beer Cocktails, Illus. Vol. 1
    • 27: No. 194 How To Make Sick-Diet Jelly
    • 27: Notable And Potable Vol. 8: Beer Cocktails!
    • 25: The Shooter.
    • 25: How You Taste Success: Mató
    • 20: Notable and Potable Vol. 7: Choose Your Own Cocktail Adventure, Or Just Let The Ambien Decide
    • 18: No. 15. Cocky Leeky
    • 13: Notable and Potable Vol. 6: A Spirit Pony Guided Quest For Some ‘Lilac Drank’
    • 13: Chèvre At First Sight
    • 11: I Expect You To Diet, Mr. Bond: For Your Eyes Only
    • 11: No. 132 Yorkshire Pie-Clates For Tea
    • 09: Ask Rennie, Vol. 5: The Brillat Bridesmaid’s Tale
    • 06: The Edible Fellowship Vol. 2: Frodo’s Full English
    • 05: Notable and Potable Vol. 5: Sunday Afternoon Symphony Live-Blogging
    • 04: No. 73 Belgian Faggots
    • 02: Thank You, Bobby Greenfield: A Love Affair With Carrot Cake
  • April 2011 (32)
    • 30: Rock Hobo Road Vol. 5: You Better Hold It.
    • 30: The Portlandbury Tales: The Frontman’s Tale (lines 1-135)
    • 29: Whoa, Brown Bread, Bam A Lam
    • 29: The Lovely Figs
    • 27: Be Still, My Beating Carboy: Beloved Brews I’ve Known And Burped Vol. 1
    • 27: Forbidden Fruits: The Farmer General Captures an Interview With A Canner Darkly
    • 27: Notable and Potable Vol. 4: On Making and Sharing Your Own Tonic Water
    • 26: On Urban Foraging and Other Childhood Liberations
    • 26: Save The World, Feed A Farmer: The Farmer General Talks Dollars And Sense With Nick Zigelbaum
    • 20: Notable And Potable Vol. 3: Get Off My Lawn (And Into My Glass)
    • 20: Red Threat
    • 18: Where’d The Cheese Go?
    • 18: Hunt and Peck: Re-fashioning What’s Sustainable in Southern Alaska
    • 16: To The Sideboard And Back Again: Introducing The Edible Fellowship and The Delights of Elevenses
    • 15: Notable and Potable Vol. 2: Approaching An Understanding Of The Fizz
    • 15: As the Curds Drain in Spain
    • 15: Purple Tickets: Part 3
    • 13: Rock Hobo Road, Vol. 4: Eat My Rider
    • 13: The Portlandbury Tales: General Prologue
    • 13: Purple Tickets: Part 2
    • 11: Purple Tickets: Part 1
    • 09: Firefly Dusks And Chick Days: The Farmer General Chats With Jenna Woginrich
    • 08: Ask Rennie Vol. 4: Embrace Us, Asparagus
    • 08: Ode On A Grecian Olive
    • 08: Chicken Vindaloo Made Easy: Outsourcing Memories From the Heritage Factory (Part 3)
    • 07: Chicken Vindaloo Made Easy: Outsourcing Memories From the Heritage Factory (Part 2)
    • 06: Nigella Lawson: Triple Cheese Strata With Spring Onion
    • 06: Mutiny Threatens Chick-Pease Scheme!
    • 06: Notable and Potable Vol. 1: The Hide, London
    • 04: Chicken Vindaloo Made Easy: Outsourcing Memories From the Heritage Factory (Part 1)
    • 04: La Petite Crêperie
    • 01: Raw As Dairy, Real As Milk: The Farmer General Speaks With Kurt Timmermeister
  • March 2011 (38)
    • 31: Rock Hobo Road Vol. 3: Cadbury Chorus Line.
    • 30: On The Subject of Cookies
    • 30: The Secret Menu: Vol. 1
    • 28: I Wandered Lonely As A Cod
    • 28: Sensory Exchange: To Every Steam, A Color.
    • 26: Agrarian Aggregate: Farm to Pen in the Pacific Northwest
    • 25: Kate Whiteman: Steelhead Cakes
    • 23: Ask Rennie, Vol. 3: Birds, Bees, and Knees?
    • 23: Well After Sunrise
    • 23: Rock Hobo Road Vol. 2: Louder, Faster, Crunchier.
    • 21: Fridge Craven
    • 21: Nopal
    • 21: Ruminant
    • 18: The Maple Coast: Lost Pies, Vol. 3
    • 18: A Truly American Cuisine: Act 3
    • 18: Do Not Go Lentil Into That Good Night
    • 18: Queso. New In Town. Will Fight for Chips.
    • 17: Put This In Your Crock And Simmer It
    • 17: A Truly American Cuisine: Act 2
    • 16: O Capon! My Capon!
    • 16: Fear No Terroir: Making the Case for Geo-specific Cheese
    • 15: Crock A Block Full Vol. 1: Ten Ways to Excite Your Stoneware
    • 15: Rock Hobo Road: The Beginning(ining)
    • 14: A Truly American Cuisine: Act 1
    • 14: Barbeque: A Personal Voyage ( Part 2)
    • 14: Ask Rennie Vol. 2: Electric Pickle Boogaloo
    • 14: Pressing News From Kent!
    • 12: Jeanne Thiel Kelley: Warm Apple-Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake
    • 11: Barbeque: A Personal Voyage
    • 11: Crisper Pall
    • 10: The Temperature of Soup as a Function of Time
    • 09: Left it All For Lent: Forty Suggestions for Furthering Abstention
    • 08: Ask Rennie Vol. 1: Brylcreme Savvy-Fin
    • 05: Down and Out in Disneyland
    • 03: Cooking With Darwin
    • 03: Sour Puss: Lost Pies Vol. 2
    • 02: If It Was Good For Sir Roger North It Can Be Good For You Too
    • 02: One Dalmatian
  • February 2011 (5)
    • 28: On the Proposed Civility of Napkins
    • 28: Eating Bread: A Venerable Tradition Getting Its Ass Handed To Itself By Psychopaths
    • 28: From Fritchie To Eternity: Lost Pies Vol. 1
    • 28: Behold the Power of Cheese Affinage
    • 28: 101 Ways to Ruin Your Supper or Fast Bites for the Ill-Informed (0)
  • January 2011 (1)
    • 04: I Am Trying To Clam Your Heart

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