Author Archives: Garrett Wollman

Thinking about pumpkin pie

Posted on 2014-09-25

I just got back from a short (two-day) trip to Toronto, which is my last travel before November. In Canada, they celebrate Thanksgiving in October, on our Columbus Day, which is only two and a half weeks away — so … Continue reading →

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Not Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Posted on 2014-09-21

I recently bought a copy of Julia Child et al.‘s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (50th anniversary edition boxed set), the cookbook that made Julia Child a household name (at least among the aspirational middle class). I’ve been scanning … Continue reading →

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The Recipe Pointers Just Keep On Coming

This batch finishes off all of the cookbooks that I currently have on hand — at least those that I thought worth extracting the interesting bits from. There are still plenty of other cookbooks that I use more as reference … Continue reading →

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Chocolate tasting results for (extra dark) championship week 1

Posted on 2014-09-16

We held the first of two championship tastings Monday, concentrating on the 70% end of our “extra dark” range. As I wrote on our wiki: In order to keep the championship round at two weeks, we ended up with eight … Continue reading →

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Now taking recipe writeup requests…

Hey, folks! I know there are a bunch of you following me who seem to be interested in my recipe posts (because you click the “like” button). I’m currently working out a schedule for things I want to make for … Continue reading →

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My recipe, for once: whole wheat sandwich bread

Posted on 2014-09-14

This is a slightly revised and updated version of my Wheat sandwich bread, Mk. 4 recipe, developed a number of years ago based on a number of sources (see the link) — now with pictures. As I’m presenting it here, … Continue reading →

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Chocolate tasting results for week 7

Posted on 2014-09-11

I was expecting week 7, chock full of artisanal chocolates from boutique American makers, to be the culmination of our two months of preliminary heats. Boy was I wrong: This tasting was a bit of a disaster for the artisanal … Continue reading →

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Other people’s recipes: Joanne Chang’s honey-cinnamon ice cream & Cook’s Illustrated’s rice and lentils

Posted on 2014-09-08

It’s a two-for-one today: first the honey-cinnamon ice cream from Joanne Chang’s first cookbook, Flour (p. 260), and then from this month’s Cook’s Illustrated, it’s “Rice and Lentils with Crispy Onions” (pp. 8–9). Let’s start with the ice cream, which … Continue reading →

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The network nightmare that ate my week

Posted on 2014-09-05

A few hours ago, I sent the following “dear colleagues” email (lightly edited to remove some private details) to all my users at work: This has been a very trying week. For those of you whose work was disrupted this … Continue reading →

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From the pages of Stupid Software Design Quarterly…

Posted on 2014-09-01

About a month ago, printing stopped working on my machine. I had a clunky workaround, so I didn’t worry too much about it. I had just upgraded the cups package, which manages printing, on the print server, and it seemed … Continue reading →

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