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The More Things Change…
Read more: The More Things Change…The more things change, the more they stay the same. This week, we’ll be refiguring our bar area and, in the process, moving the dining roomentrance back to where it used to be. The original way in. There was a time when downtown was still deciding if it wanted to be anything after dark. Backthen,…
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Crisp. Crunch. Whatever.
Read more: Crisp. Crunch. Whatever.There are great debates in food: Sauce or no sauce. Thin crust or thick. Sweet cornbread or cornbread that minds its business. And now, apparently, crisp versus crunch. If you’ve missed it, there have been some minor kerfuffles in the world of chili oil—specifically over whether the word “crunch” belongs to any one person, company,…
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Alchemy on a Pizza Peel: The Supersonic Rocket Ship
Read more: Alchemy on a Pizza Peel: The Supersonic Rocket ShipI’ve always been fascinated by the idea of alchemy. Mystery writers love it. Fiction writers can’t resist it. Even people who don’t particularly care about pseudoscience still perk up when you mention the old dream: turning lead into gold, finding the Philosopher’s Stone, brewing an elixir that fixes everything and maybe—even better—makes time back down…