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One breezy Chicago summer, my brother and I built a treehouse. Isn’t that nice? But before my mother objects, let’s rephrase: one sweaty Chicago summer, my brother and I nearly killed each other nailing two boards into a tree. We pounded rows of crooked nails into little boards for steps, and as high as we [...]

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Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me

I like fake food. More accurately, I like my food to look fake… …and taste real. Not fake like Hydrogenated-Twinkie-Snowball fake, just fake beautiful. Technicolor fake. My longstanding notion that all meals must look like movie props likely springs from a lifetime of reading and collecting old cookbooks, starting young and ever-growing on my shelves [...]

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