Year: 2016
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So I normally don’t take baking posts from descriptions of food, but this custard was part of a really provocative description, and I couldn’t resist. The custard is mention in reference to a particularly amazing bottle of wine. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a wine that reminded me of vanilla custard, but I…
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As I’ve said before, I’m usually much more concerned with reading books that appeal to me no matter when they were written than trying to keep up with the newest releases. I tend to wait until books are out in paperback, or I borrow them from the library, neither of which lend themselves to very…
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I wanted to choose a food from this book that reflected the circus atmosphere, and there are few foods that do that better than fresh buttery popcorn. The first mention of popcorn occurs at the very beginning of the novel, when the narrator, the hunchbacked Oly, describes the ‘good days’ of her youth at the…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic was to come up with some bookish resolutions. Since I already shared some more general resolutions with you, I figured we’d get right into the resolving. Join a book club–I’ve wanted to join one for a while, but the nature…
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There’s not much food mentioned in the Wicked series. Elphaba has way more important things to do than cook. Or even eat. But there are a few foods that manage to convey both a very Oz-like sense of the exotic as well as a dark of mysterious quality–something decadent but not quite right. Saffron cream is mentioned…
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I hope everyone had a wonderful (but maybe not too crazy) night last night. Now that we’ve all rung in the New Year, it’s time for some reflection on last year and the year ahead. In a way, I’m not sad to see the back of 2015. It’s been an intense and fairly stressful year.…
Allison Burris 