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Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!) Over 56,000 subscribers No thanks“I have never read a newsletter more powerful and enjoyable than "Burnt Toast." Virginia is so smart and thoughtful and cuts to the quick of everything that is wrong with diet culture in America. And in doing so, sets us free.” “Uncompromising, clear-eyed dismantling of diet culture ” “For slowly, slowly undoing what diet culture did to you in the '90s.

Sometimes a surname can make, break or overstate a legacy. For example, Thomas Crapper, the 19th century English plumber and plumbing supply entrepreneur wasn't really that involved with toilets, but we are largely indebted to him whenever we refer to that thing we do on the porcelain throne as "going to the crapper." Then there is Royal Huddleston Burpee, a physiologist who invented (arguably) one of the most effective exercises of all time in 1939 for his PhD thesis in Applied Physiology at Columbia Teacher’s College.

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~ BÉNÉDICTINE ~ Herbal liqueur / 40% ABV / c.£30 for 700ml Friends with: dark spirits, notably brandy, bourbon and rye. Italian vermouth. Absinthe. Peychaud’s bitters. Also, gin, French vermouth, sherry. And, cream, chocolate, coffee, etc. Imagine, you are a teenager in a northern English industrial town in 1914. The ruling classes of Europe have resolved to see how many of you they can annihilate in order to satisfy one of their most inscrutable codes of honour.

As I’ve said before, it’s hard to create a unique and original recipe, particularly something as tried-and-true as a chocolate chip cookie. But I feel like I’ve done it. I wanted something like the ones from my high school cafeteria: A soft, fudgy texture, a lot of chocolate and as much vanilla as I could get away with. If you bought buttermilk powder for the Buttermilk Donut Cookie, here’s another place to use it.

Now this is one of my favorite stories of all time. It’s a story about life, and death, and catastrophic real estate transactions. But more than that, I think it’s a story that tells us something important about our future as a species. You might have heard variations on it too—it’s a famous story in the annals of demography and medicine. But it’s worth revisiting, even if you have heard the general outline of it.

"Finding France: a Memoir in Small Bites" my serialized book, is published weekly here, a lifetime of inspiration from the kitchen, garden, farms & markets of Gascony. Written at the Relais de Camont, my home & writer’s residency in Southwest France. By Kate Hill in France · Over 7,000 subscribersNot at this time, thanks.“Get a look into the beautiful French country kitchen of Kate and her luscious, hearty French cooking. In her newsletter, you'll feel like you're right alongside her at the market.

Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. As the economic picture darkened somewhat in recent months, it became clear that tough times were likely ahead for much of the print newspaper business. Now they are here, as the recent quarterly earnings announcement from Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, made evident. Gannett has subsequently launched another major round of layoffs, and the market capitalization of its more than 250 papers is now less than $350 million, while its stock trades near a 22-month low.

For those who have read my posts on here or listened to our Broken Copier conversations, I think one of my most consistent messages is the importance of leaning into student choice and voice. I don’t believe our education system prioritizes student agency nearly enough; and I don’t believe our education system seeks out and responds to student feedback nearly enough. It might be weird, then, that one of my strongest beliefs about the foundation of a classroom community is the importance of assigned seats within it.