The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
Six forks between the cupboard and the table, and the best branch at each. The history is made up. The oven temperature is not.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
Flannel season is in full force, and the work shirt is finally getting the runway review it never asked for.
By Hollis Carver
From the Editor's Desk
Nine reference pages, four hundred and twenty-one lenses, and a compiler who has held almost none of them. The interesting column is the empty one.
By P. Lotor
The Kitchen Desk
Set the headcount once and fourteen dishes scale with it, down to the last lime. The garnish bowls get their own table.
By R. Dunmore
The Parlour
The history of extraterrestrial arrival, assembled from the only archive available. With corrections, and one personnel matter regarding our staff illustrator.
By The Editor
Domestic Affairs
Portland General Electric's residential customers used 20% less electricity in 2024 than in 2000 and paid 141% more for it. The appliances worked. The savings were collected by the unit price.
By Hollis Carver
The Kitchen Desk
Water boils cooler as you climb, so the seven minutes that produced a hard egg at the trailhead produces a raw one at the summit. The pot is not the problem. The sky is.
By R. Dunmore
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Every letter in the grid belongs to a word. There is no filler, in any direction. You may circle the entire thing.
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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.
