Author Archives: Garrett Wollman

Diane St. Clair’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

Posted on 2014-03-09

Continuing my exploration of Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook, today I made shallow-fried chicken and mashed potatoes. I’m not usually one for fried chicken — don’t get me wrong, I love fried chicken, but it’s not exactly … Continue reading →

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Diane St. Clair’s Buttermilk Meat Loaf

Posted on 2014-03-09

I recently picked up a copy of Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook. St. Clair and her husband operate a dairy farm in Orwell, Vermont, and supply butter and buttermilk to famous restaurants and gourmet food stores around … Continue reading →

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That’s how it’s SUPPOSED to work (quote)

Posted on 2014-03-01

From Diane St. Clair’s The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from a Small Vermont Dairy (Andrews McMeel, 2013): We also eat meat, and we raise all of the meat that we eat on the farm. There is no … Continue reading →

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ATK’s Herb-crusted Salmon Fillets

Posted on 2014-02-28

[Folks: a lot of you seem to be coming to my blog for this page. Please do me a favor and leave a comment about how you ended up here, and what you were actually looking for!] A few days … Continue reading →

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Long-term update: Braunekuchen and split-pea soup; also, yummy chocolate

Posted on 2014-02-27

Last month I made Diane Duane’s Braunekuchen and Joanne Chang’s split-pea soup. The Braunekuchen recipe says they get better if kept in a sealed container for a few weeks; I ate the last two earlier this week, but honestly did … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Posted on 2014-02-27

From Greg Shill, guest-blogging at The Conglomerate, of all places. He’s talking about a recent Kansas decision that found a sperm donor to be the legal father of a lesbian (ex-)couple’s child, despite all the parties having signed a contract … Continue reading →

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Random segue time (post-Olympics edition)

So I just watched the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics (on my TiVo, so the delay didn’t bother me — but taking a commercial break during the pre-recorded lowering of the Olympic flag is inexcusable), which always pushes my … Continue reading →

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The Definition of “Engineering”

Posted on 2014-02-23

On the way home, I was thinking about the overlap of engineering and design. Most engineering disciplines involve some element of design, but design and engineering are not the same thing. Similarly, some designers (particularly those working on Web site … Continue reading →

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Radio playlist algorithmics

Posted on 2014-02-15

If you’re building a music log for a radio station, you generally have certain rules determined by your format — for example: All of the top 10 songs get played once every jock shift All of the next 20 songs … Continue reading →

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Some surprising words of wisdom from Ron Unz

Posted on 2014-02-15

Conservative activist Ron Unz would not exactly be my go-to person for economic analysis, but Mike Konczal draws attention to a 2012 article of Unz’s making the conservative case for increasing the minimum wage. Some choice quotations (footnotes omitted): On … Continue reading →

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