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The poetry of lived experience
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Diary of a Line Cook: Entry 1
Hollandaise, the joy of plating, and beginning again
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Wil Reidie
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April 2024

Of Time and the Kitchen
A few weeks of Finnish spring...
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Wil Reidie and the Honeymoon Campfire Potatoes
In celebration of my wife and burnt food
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March 2024

Notes from the world's "happiest" country
And a word on what's coming next from me
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Part 23: Empty Handed and Nothing Left Behind
The final chapter of the Memoirs of a Line Cook
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A Line Cook Rants Again: Social Media Videos vs Memoir Recipes
A long(ish) read on form and content in food media
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Part 22: Many, many questions...
Many, many questions or Why I stopped worrying about being a great cook
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Do you come turn into my wife?
A diary entry about a food hall and my struggle to talk Finnish
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February 2024

A Grumpy Line Cook's Rant about Social Media "Chefs"
A long(ish) read in defence of knowing what you're talking about
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A Line Cook's Guide to Purée and Existentialism
Featuring a carrot purée that'll knock ya socks off
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Runeberg Torte (Boozy Almond and Cookie Cakes)
So good you'll want to write a sonnet about it
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