May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Lucky Peach: Fashion and... →
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In Chef David Chang’s latest issue of Lucky Peach, there is a great article by T-Magazine food editor Christine Muhlke comparing the nature of the cooking and fashion industries: how recipes spread from innovators to mass market family restaurant chains, Award winning…
Anthony Bourdain's Five Golden Rules Of Eating Out →
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1. Eating is a submissive act. Assume the chef knows what he does well better than you do and ask for a tasting menu.
2. Avoid menus that try to be everything to everybody. The smaller the menu, the better. The perfect restaurant would only have one dish: “We have ramen noodle soup, but it’s the best damn ramen noodle soup in New York.”
3. Simple is hard to do right. A bad chef...
February 2012
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Help! Words With Friends Wants to Kill Me
Am I lazy? I hardly think so. But over the last couple weeks I’ve enjoyed a fair amount of doing nothing. It’s actually pretty great. I’ve just been taking it easy, chilling, lampin’, napping and absorbing life, but I have a hard time not beating myself up. What have I accomplished? Nothing, that’s what.
I wouldn’t exactly call it nothing. There have been many,...
Samuel Axon: The professional lessons I've learned... →
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A couple people close to me are looking for work right now, and others have asked me what my career path has been like and what lessons I’ve learned from that. I thought about it a lot tonight and this is what I came up with. I’m sure not all of this is accurate — I’m young yet and I will surely…
So much of this rings true with me. I’ve been through many ups and downs...
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The Glint in my Eye
The past 18 months have been epic. I moved to San Francisco an impressionable hayseed, and have had my kernel cracked in the fiery furnace of adulthood. Times have been terrible and tremendous, often within he same week.
I could elaborate on all the places I’ve been, and what I’ve seen, but I will save that for later.
Last night I was at a gathering at a startup mansion called The...
January 2012
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“You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.”
– Congolese Proverb (via dynamicafrica)
graffiti painted world war II military planes →