I’ve eaten a lot of yogurt for most of my life, and most recently I’ve become enamored of Greek-style yogurt. It’s strained and thicker … and way more expensive. $5 for a container is really more than I want to … Continue reading
It’s been peach season these past few weeks in New York. This is a marked improvement over Minnesota, where there was no peach season at all. I’ve found, though, that there is a difference between Southern and Northeastern conceptions of … Continue reading
I’ve not traditionally been a summertime person. I do my best, really I do, but usually I find myself longing for fall by early July. That wasn’t the case this year; orientation begins tomorrow and I’m still clinging to the … Continue reading
(Alternate title: in which I decide that cocktail recipes totally count.) If you’re in England in the summer, Pimm’s is inevitable. Since I’ve been back home, I’ve hauled the bottle of Pimm’s out of the bar and have been making … Continue reading
This is hardly complicated enough to count as a recipe, but I hadn’t made it before so I’m counting it. Step 1: Buy some beautiful looking apricots that turn out to be not so juicy and not so sweet. Realize … Continue reading
You may remember the original version of this goal, which was “spend contiguous months in the UK.” When I wrote that one, I was living in a tiny apartment that I had little attachment to and that contained no pets … Continue reading
Back in July, sour cherries were at the market, lovely and cheap. Twice in one week, I bought two quarts of perfect cherries. They were so absolute in their perfection that I didn’t want to taste anything but cherries in … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
