A.A. Newton
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I Highly Recommend Dredging Your Fried Foods in Semolina Flour
Learning a completely new-to-me use for a familiar ingredient is one of my favourite parts of cooking. It’s exciting and humbling — a nice little reminder that, in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know shit about shit. The most recent example of this is semolina flour: I’d only used it while baking bread…
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Four Alternatives to Petrol-Powered Leaf Blowers (That Aren’t a Rake)
Everyone hates leaf blowers, and it’s not hard to see why. For most people, the noise is reason enough; if your neighbourhood has lawns, the chainsaw-level buzzing is inescapable for most of the year, and it always seems to start at the worst possible time. But the biggest, best, and most correct reason to loathe…
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Is It Ever OK to Walk Your Dog in a Cemetery?
Cemeteries aren’t just for the dead, the mourning, and edgy teens anymore. With more and more cities rethinking the role their cemeteries play in public life, your local graveyard could be a lovely, quiet spot for a stroll, jog, or even a picnic. Notably absent from this list of wholesome activities: Walking your dog.
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The Real Way to Find a Bra That Fits Your Big Boobs
Every year since about 2006, it seems like we get a new statistic about how many people are wearing the wrong bra size, which always inspires a slew of news stories about how Jennifer from Long Island thought she was a 36D but is actually a 30F. With all due respect to the Jennifers of…