martha stewart
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When Is It Illegal to Lie?
Obviously, when you like big butts, you cannot lie, but how dishonest can you be in other situations? Pretty dishonest, it turns out. In most day-to-day circumstances, you can be as duplicitous as you like and no one can throw you in jail for it — you can tell people your uncle works at Nintendo,…
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When It’s OK to Cook Dry Pasta Directly in Your Sauce, and When It Isn’t
One main aspect of food writing is identifying recipes and methods that let you get food on the table and into your mouth as quickly and with as few dirty dishes as possible. This is especially important if you are talking about food that must be eaten on a weeknight, the kind of night which…
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Actually, You Should Roast This Duck Instead of a Turkey
The initial idea was breathtaking: We had grandiose visions of under-appreciated birds being cajoled up other under-appreciated birds’ back ends. We called it the Gooduckail: A quail, stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a goose. It took 53 text messages to get there, and it was only once we realised that we would be two omnivores…