I'm sure I've said this before but I would really like to host a dinner once a month or once a week if I could really handle it.
http://www.knoxpriest.com/scruffy-hospitality-creates-space-friendship/
Linked to it from here
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blogs/in-priase-scruffy-hospitality
in which I really enjoyed the writing. But it reminded me the first time we talked about hosting a Friday night dinner after reading this Serious Eats story.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/08/simpler-entertaining-friday-night-dinners-end-loneliness-how-to-build-community-after-having-kids.html
As a person who has developed embarassingly intimate relationships to my coffee teta/gold tooth/21jumpstreet this story struck close to home. For many growing up breakfast is a family meal and the grownup isolation of coffee on the walk is mitigated by these warm people.
http://www.extracrispy.com/culture/979/to-the-breakfast-cart-man-with-love
I'm still obsessed with the suicide forest in Japan
http://www.aokigaharaforest.com/
Another of my favorite New York grocery stores is closed. What are we gonna do?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/nyregion/soho-met-food-grocery-closes.html?_r=0
After the Associated on 14 Street earlier this year
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160311/chelsea/locals-protest-chelsea-associated-supermarket-rent-hike-as-closure-looms
An article about my favorite newscaster, Pat Battle
http://archive.northjersey.com/community-news/my-hometown-wnbc-s-pat-battle-is-a-long-time-teaneck-resident-1.1336418
Showing self control is empathy for your future self
https://health.good.is/articles/self-control-marshmallow-test-future-empathy
didn't read this yet
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/217831/what-to-do-about-trump
Norman Lear on Longevity and Laughter
https://medium.com/@TheNormanLear/on-longevity-and-laughter-7fcae01c5f14#.7mljjiqvp
A companion piece to the man living in the Maine woods and stealing from camps
https://medium.com/the-california-sunday-magazine/aaron-bassler-fort-bragg-manhunt-2199845d0f30#.afrxaprnl
Cuts of beef
http://visual.ly/cuts-beef?utm_source=visually_embed
On friendship
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/16/friendship/
and also from brainpickings a list of writers advice on writing
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/
Fascinated by the White House kitchen; this article has a bunch of interesting stories.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/09/504693961/first-ladies-often-forge-food-trends-but-melanias-menu-is-a-mystery
and http://bluecayenne.com/?p=2221
Here's some excerpts from a book about Eleanor Roosevelt; she developed some 7 1/2 cent meals with the folks at Cornell to serve at the White House during the depression.
https://books.google.com/books?id=RNwDgmvNmBQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
That would be the same as $1.38 today according to this inflation calculator
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Beautiful story about man running hospice in California
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/magazine/one-mans-quest-to-change-the-way-we-die.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0&referer=http://www.thefullhelping.com/weekend-reading-1-15-17/
Nordic way to be good at winter
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/the-nordic-way-to-be-good-at-winter.html
Man makes argument that chicken stick is fine for veetarians; the argument is a little thin
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/09/chicken_stock_vegetarians_need_to_compromise_and_stop_pretending_it_counts.html
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