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1) We broke with tradition this year, and abandoned the obligatory turkey with all the trimmins in favor of pasta with a big pot of meatballs and sauce (and sausage, and pork). In doing so, preparatio… more →
Bart Modern's Bowleg
Post holiday post
Bart Modern wrote 12 months ago: 1) We broke with tradition this year, and abandoned the obligatory turkey with all the trimmins in f … more →
What's for lunch? A drama in two brief scenes.
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Dramatis Personae: Bart Modern, a father The Kid, a kid Scene 1: A kitchen and dining room, somewher … more →
Fall-ing, yes I am fall-ing
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Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Perfect warm sunny October afternoon. Standing in the middle of an apple orchard, washing down a per … more →
End of summer bookdump
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Some more of what I’ve been reading recently… How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Education … more →
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Seven words. Michael Pollan boils it all down to seven words. … more →
Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think, by Brian Wansink
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: An interesting, if flawed book. Mr. Wansink’s central thesis is that we aren’t aware of … more →
Food on the fly
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Tentative plans for a family evening out last night gave way to some later than anticipated work tim … more →
My brain hates me.
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: So I’m trying to eat well. I’m trying to exercise regularly. I’m starting to see s … more →
The hills are alive, with the sound of wheezing...
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: So it was the @#$%ing Congo Bars that had me hiking halfway up a goddamned mountain*. I made a batch … more →
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: For something so basic and necessary, it is easy to take food for granted. Doing so enables many of … more →
Meal of oat (oatie, oatie, oat...)*
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: While I enjoy oatmeal – both as a breakfast option and on a purely existential level – it’s not the … more →
Full, but not sinful
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: As I’ve mentioned previously, we’re trying to eat healthier here at the Modern manse. On … more →
Bart's Beefy Beans
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: So a few years back, we started making what may be the world’s simplest slow cooker meal: pack … more →
Indulgence
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: If healthy eating is a habit to be cultivated, then the corollary is that sometimes you have to thro … more →
Getting all up in your grill
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: A week of unseasonably nice weather (for a few days, Mother Nature leapfrogged over spring to give u … more →
Two of my favorite 'B' words
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been taking shots at New York magazine lately, so it’s only fair that I sing their … more →
The Year of Eating Dangerously, by Tom Parker Bowles
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: It’s always dangerous to conflate a writer’s literary persona with their true personalit … more →
Back from Hell
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: In college, there was a small parking lot near the residence hall where various of my friends who wo … more →
Over 1,000? Really?
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Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: I may have found the single most pointles and unnecessary book on the planet: The Ultimate Little Ma … more →
