The Kitchen Desk · 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 Kitchen Desk
Build a week of grab-and-go snacks yourself on Sunday, once you know how long each piece actually keeps.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
The dent behind the door is not an accident of use. It is the predictable output of hanging a swinging slab beside a fixed obstacle and shipping it without a stop.
By Hollis Carver
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
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
The Kitchen Desk
Fry them in real fat until they shine. Vegan, Tex-Mex and Oaxacan all fall out of the same machine, and none of them out of a can.
By R. Dunmore
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
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.
