March 2012
4 posts
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Mom's special sandwich
Our first submission/guest post!
Mix a handful of ground beef with mayonnaise, mustard, sweet pickle relish, salt, and pepper. Spread thickly on a slice or two of white bread, like Pepperidge Farm. Top with sharp cheddar, and broil until meat is fully cooked and cheese is all bubblycheesy. Mmm.
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The Roast Post
Art by Chris Roberts-Antieau
My grandmother, Suzanne Simonin Potter, or as I call her, Grandma Sue, has slowly but surely declined into dementia over the course of the last decade. While lacking short-term memory, she has no difficulty identifying Gima when we look through family photos. “That’s my mother-in-law!” is the usual exclamation that accompanies a Gima sighting. I am fortunate to have...
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The Bread Also Rises. Sometimes.
Art by Mark Weber
The Potter hesitancy to tackle things that don’t come naturally portends a life free from ball-related sports, successful marriages, long-term employment, and, in my case, yeast-dependent baked goods. My bread never, ever rises. Practice might make perfect, but we Potters wouldn’t know. I simply haven’t bothered trying to make bread in the last thirty years or so. According...
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Art by Alex Fine
For the past eight years, a large, yellow, earthenware bowl has been cluttering up my precious kitchen space. It’s really quite crappy. It’s not so much yellow as a dingy ochre, with two long cracks and a hefty chip. For a while, I used it to hold fruit. But as someone who lives in constant danger of scurvy, this resulted in unsurprising neglect of Yellow Bowl and its...
