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The Secret Life of Mary Poppins

April 1, 2009

THE SECRET LIFE OF MARY POPPINS
The children finally asleep, door locked,
the chimneysweep bound and gagged
in a hall closet, she pours the acrylic colors
of her costume down the bathroom sink,
flushes the cartoon penguins down the toilet.
On the narrow bed she unlocks
her lacquered hair and wipes the happy paint
off her face, [...]

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Blueberry corncakes

March 25, 2009

Finally, blueberries.  I went to college in Maine, so I was a bit suspect of blueberries after I moved to California.  But then I discovered Santa Barbara berries one spring at the Santa Monica farmers market.   They don’t have the same exact flavor, but they’re equally good.  Corncakes are sturdier than pancakes made with just [...]

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Alice’s restaurant

March 24, 2009

Dinner: a catalog of mozzarellas, oven-roasted baby carrots in a riot of colors, a salad like an accidental garden in a bowl, Santa Barbara spot prawns and pork dredged in fennel pollen and rack of lamb all roasted over an outdoor fireplace. This is what you have when Nancy Silverton invites Alice Waters to dinner–and [...]

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Edible gardens

March 22, 2009

How to get kids to eat healthy foods?  Open the doors.  Instead of bribing kids or hiding vegetables in their chocolate pudding or blueberries in their hamburgers, get them into a garden.  For starters, bribing is an ethically questionably activity.  (Chores, sure; homework, maybe; food, no.) Then there’s the problematic fact that my kids can [...]

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Strawberry aguas frescas

March 21, 2009

Another amazing thing to do with fresh ripe Camarosas or Chandlers or Gaviotas is to make a batch of aguas frescas with them.  I didn’t know what these were (aguas frescas, not strawberries) before I moved to Southern California, but I quickly learned to order them–fresh fruit aguas frescas, horchata, jamaica and tamarindo–at restaurants and [...]

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The Secret Quaker Broadcasting Network

March 21, 2009

THE SECRET QUAKER BROADCASTING NETWORK
operates at 110 watts
of pure silence,
broadcasting nightly
from Midwestern insomnia farms
and rent-controlled quadrants
of antique Philadelphia.
The base-station operators
work all night, bouncing their signals
through police and federal emergency channels,
sending out public service
announcements
in paragraphs of absolute quiet.
All over America
the bedside radios emit waves
of soundlessness
to [...]

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The beach at night

March 19, 2009

 
After a day of recipe testing (challah, brown butter scones, ginger-peach muffins), the beach at night is pretty amazing. Well, it’s always pretty amazing.  But carbo-loading helps everything.
 

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