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National Eating Disorders Awareness Month, Ten

February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Month. Okay; it’s technically a week. But because everyone works on different schedules and one specifically mandated week will inevitably cause conflict for participants, many people dedicate the entire month to raising awareness. This is an astronomically important event for me, as I spent much of my childhood [read more ...]

Help Me Through the Weekend!

I’ll be getting my wisdom teeth extracted today.
(Poor, poor Rochelle.)
To keep me going through the long, painful, solid food-free weekend, please – I am begging you – tell me all of the delicious, decadent, excellent things you plan on eating from Friday to Sunday. Spare no dirty details. I want to know about [read more ...]

Goat Cheese, Part Two

I like to eat goat cheese at 1:30 on Monday afternoons. It tastes best then.

But, you know, I also enjoy it early in the morning, plopped on a broiled orange.

Or

Slathered on a medallion of baguette, then warmed gently in the oven, perched on top of fresh greens.
Or

Pulled apart roughly, manifesting itself in [read more ...]

Oh, Goat Cheese

Tell mehow you like to eatgoat cheese.
And then, tomorrow,I’ll tell youhow I like to

National Eating Disorders Awareness Month, Nine

February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Month. Okay; it’s technically a week. But because everyone works on different schedules and one specifically mandated week will inevitably cause conflict for participants, many people dedicate the entire month to raising awareness. This is an astronomically important event for me, as I spent much of my childhood [read more ...]

Bread Salad and Old Friends

The last time I’d seen my friend J was two years ago, when he’d (accidentally, to be fair) swung me over his shoulder and knocked my head into a booth at The Blue Tusk, causing me to bleed profusely from above my right eye. I needed three stitches, and after that, we avoided one [read more ...]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Month, Eight

February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Month. Okay; it’s technically a week. But because everyone works on different schedules and one specifically mandated week will inevitably cause conflict for participants, many people dedicate the entire month to raising awareness. This is an astronomically important event for me, as I spent much of [read more ...]

I Am a Weird Cook

As part of her job as a children’s librarian, my mother is responsible for creating and putting on craft and entertainment programs for the local kids during their school vacations. It’s “Hawaiian week” at the Onondaga Free Library, and so when my mom asked me to help out by making smoothies for the kick-off [read more ...]

Get Figgy with It

Had any good figs lately?

In Order of Importance: Figs, Muffins, Larry Fitzgerald

The following will appear in this week’s issue of The Dolphin.

When it comes to romantic food, there’s little more legendary than the fig. The shape of the fruit is rather sexy, ballooning immodestly. Their color ranges from gentle yellow to deep purple, depending on the variety. Texturally speaking, their flesh [read more ...]