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The Prep Day
Menu change, another favourite book, and the importance of time
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How to Fail at Being Finnish: Chapter 4
New potatoes, smoked meat, and Finnish sauna etiquette
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How to Fail at Being Finnish: Chapter 3
A piece of a jigsaw
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A Line Cook's Rant About This One Sous Chef from a Decade Ago...
On prep kitchens, cerulean sweaters, and the new popcorn McFlurry
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My new daily bread and an old favourite book
Rice and porridge
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August 2024

How to Fail at Being Finnish: Chapter 2
Love in a Moominvalley
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How to Fail at Being Finnish: Chapter 1
Ei paskempi
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Diary of a Line Cook: Part 4
A health test, being a culinary Van Gogh, and brioche-crusted salmon
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Nothing tastes as good...
On guilt and perfect doughnuts
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July 2024

Diary of a Line Cook: Number 3
Birthday discount, global psyops, and the motivation to cook for guests I never meet
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A Line Cook's Rant About... Cooking
Plucking pheasants, "teledildonic" accoutrements, and the other problem with UPFs.
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June 2024

A recipe for pork, girolles, and burnt apricots
Something unseasonally seasonal
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