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July 14th 013

What Herman Melville Taught Me About Blogging

Note: At the end of this, I’m going to be asking for your best blog post, so be thinking while you’re reading this One of the cuter things about Sweet Riot candies is that the tins have a little quote in them like a fortune cookie does. What mine had to say a few nights [...]

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June 30th 037

How Do You Deal With Rejection?

Imagine this: Imagine waking up starving, making a great big breakfast, and sitting down to your inbox to see what’s conspired since you last checked. Part of me must have known rejection was coming, because I don’t usually have chocolate like that at breakfast. To put it blunt: I got my very first rejection letter [...]

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June 24th 027

My Thoughts On Food Photography

Can we talk about food photography? I hate food photography. Maybe that’s not fair, because I really only ever “hate” things that are hard for me, like lifting, chewing on raw broccoli, and sitting through an episode of any dance reality show. Still, it’s something I find really really challenging and get frustrated over. I’ve [...]

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Why Chocolate Makes Me Not Want Wine

Why Chocolate Makes Me Not Want Wine

Happy Monday! I like Monday’s way too much. If you went away for Father’s day weekend then you might have missed… The winner of the ice cream maker My comparison of peanut butter prices A tiresome Saturday Silly breakfast confessions Lessons from a future father Now, I was debating saying what I’m about to say: [...]

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June 19th 009

This Is Why We Recipe Test

Last night, I started the process of testing recipes for the book to see how they’d come out. Well now I know why we recipe test. We recipe test so that veggie burgers can’t be confused in consistency with tofu soup. We recipe test so that our methodology doesn’t lead someone to getting burnt by [...]

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