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Why recipe blog posts are so long
Food

Why recipe blog posts are so long

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Katherine Luck • 2 Comments

Why do food bloggers write so much? Does anyone actually like reading them? Why don’t they just get to the recipe?! The answers to these questions will surprise you, and so will this free recipe for a very obscure cake
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Edgar Allan Poe tries Japanese candy
Dead writers & candy / Food

Edgar Allan Poe tries Japanese candy

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Katherine Luck • 3 Comments

You will say that I am mad—for who but a madman could devise so remarkable a species of vengeance, marked by such intricate dissimulation, such exquisite cunning? Continue reading →

What Laura Ingalls Wilder really ate
Books / Food

What Laura Ingalls Wilder really ate

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Katherine Luck • 2 Comments

Two books claim to have the answer. But the answer each one presents is very different from the other. Continue reading →

What the new ‘Flowers in the Attic’ book gets completely wrong
Books / Food

What the new ‘Flowers in the Attic’ book gets completely wrong

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Katherine Luck • 3 Comments

The copycat plot and abrupt ending aren’t the real problem with “Beneath the Attic.” It’s something involving a 100-year-old cake. Continue reading →

Jane Austen tries Japanese candy
Dead writers & candy / Food

Jane Austen tries Japanese candy

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Katherine Luck • 1 Comment

“Do tell us at once, Captain Middlebury, what that strange object might be,” cried Mrs. Rawlings. “I, for one, have never seen such a curiosity in all the county. Surely it is another of your wonderful importations from abroad.” Continue reading →

It’s the 4th of July: What are you eating?
Books / Food

It’s the 4th of July: What are you eating?

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Katherine Luck

Talking books, keeping summer boredom at bay, and the world’s strangest pizza topping. Continue reading →

The ultimate summer cake recipe
Food

The ultimate summer cake recipe

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Katherine Luck • 1 Comment

Called “one of 2018’s biggest and most controversial trends” by The Washington Post, edible glitter was invented for the cake decorating industry to garnish display cakes. By January, the FDA had to issue an advisory warning. Continue reading →

Everything I know about glitter is wrong
Food / History

Everything I know about glitter is wrong

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Katherine Luck • 1 Comment

Recently, I got to thinking about glitter. What is it made of? When was it invented? Most important of all, what would happen if someone baked it into a cake and ate it? Continue reading →

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