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February 9, 2021
At the Young Wizards end of things: an update report
Just a brief note here on how things are going. Those of you who saw the November post about the general updating of all the Young Wizards sites (secondary to…
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January 26, 2021
2021 Hugo nomination eligibility: the Young Wizards series
So it’s once more that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards (for Discon III later this year), and it turns out…
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December 15, 2020
Maluns
It’s a country dish; a poor people’s dish; a farmer’s hasty breakfast or stopgap luncheon. And (to those who know about it) it instantly recalls the remote Alpine region where…
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November 27, 2020
Owl Be Home For Christmas
Sometimes work and life come at you fast, in tandem. I was taking a break from work on Tales of the Five 3: The Librarian last week, and (as I…
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November 23, 2020
Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”
It occurred to me that it’d be smart to import this post from EuropeanCuisines.com, it being the time of year to think about such things. Some years back, EuroCuisineLady and…
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November 6, 2020
From the Young Wizards universe: an update
Let me start by thanking everybody who saw the previous posting discussing the changes to come to the YoungWizards.com domain, and who took the time to get back to me…
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October 30, 2020
Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween Edition
This came up on Tumblr some years back, at the end of a lively thread that featured this exchange: At which point I could only add the following (which comes…
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October 28, 2020
Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how can I fix it?
So, a little background here first. Though I was born and raised in the US, I live in Ireland. If there’s one thing about Ireland that you learn pretty quickly,…
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October 16, 2020
From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie
The following recipe was improvised on the fly on the evening of October 16, 2020, and unfolded on Twitter. I don’t allow my tweets to be unrolled (because the companies…
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September 26, 2020
Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons
Via the Man Upstairs: Here are half a dozen recipes and a few observations. I can provide Indian lime pickle recipes as well if there’s a real glut of fruit;…
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