The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
The second meal is cheaper, faster, and better, but only if you design it into the first one tonight, while the oven is already hot.
By R. Dunmore
The Parlour
Fifty-three filings from the cane field, the farmhouse, the shopping mall and the apartment block, sorted by when the events claim to have happened rather than by when somebody got round to printing them — and carrying, over my objection, eighty years of documents in which the zombie is the injured party and 1968 is where the word changed sides.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
Ten films the whole house can watch, G to PG-13, one joke apiece, ranked.
By Constance Tally
The Parlour
Sixty-three filings from a Roman letter, a London courtroom, a rapping in New York State and a Pixar permit office, sorted by when the events claim to have happened — a record in which the one party I cannot serve notice on turns out to keep better appointments than I do.
By Casimir Vane
Diversions
The paper's first comic strip. It is silent, it is weekly, and it concerns a routine municipal inspection. We are told it has an ending. We have chosen to trust the process.
By The Editor
The Kitchen Desk
Stock is not a recipe. It is the refusal to throw out the parts of dinner that still have a job to do.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
You cannot end the laundry. You can stop making decisions inside it: one wash class, one buffer quantity, one identical load, forever.
By Iris Petty
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Trace a path from START to EXIT. Difficulty: Gentle. Pen, not pencil — we believe in you.
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
