April has been a month of celebrations — which have been exciting but tiring, to say the least. In the last 30 days, I’ve hopped north and south and east and west all in the name of baby announcements, birthdays, showers, music festivals, and weddings. Throughout it all, I’ve come across some top tunes, tasty treats, great reads, and other fabulous finds that I wanted to share with you. Here are my ten favorite finds from the last month:
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Often I ask myself, WWJCD? No, not the religious man, but the queen of food television, Julia Child. She was a pioneer who had a matter-of-fact, in-you-face approach to discussing ingredients — take, for example, her famous chicken episode where the focus of the first minute was a lineup of raw chickens. These days our food’s so anesthetized that most have only known chicken to be wrapped in plastic and Styrofoam. But with each episode of AA, I take a cue from JC and incorporate talk of raw ingredients so you know not just where your food comes from but also how to tell top quality.
Remember my New Year’s resolution? It might be the first one I’ve ever enjoyed keeping because it yields tasty dividends — most of the time. About 99% of the time I happen upon finds like a stinky cheese that tastes good, ugly food that’s pleasant on the palette, or a bizarre sounding recipe that’s plain…
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