About Author: Chelsea Batten

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Posts by Chelsea Batten

  • Let us beat the poker analogy to death, shall we? …saying that we expect a “full house?” …noticing how food this delicious brings to our faces and feelings a “royal...

    Four of a Kind

    Let us beat the poker analogy to death, shall we? …saying that we expect a “full house?” …noticing how food this delicious brings to our faces and feelings a “royal...

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  •   Say what you will about how your various iFlavors streamline your life, simplicity is being daily devalued. We purchase technological indulgences to cover the guilt of driving too fast,...

    A Short Screed on Cheese

      Say what you will about how your various iFlavors streamline your life, simplicity is being daily devalued. We purchase technological indulgences to cover the guilt of driving too fast,...

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  •   You know, from bitter experience, that we of the Linkery must occasionally inform you that the item you came in for has been 86′d. We’re not trying to be...

    Orders

      You know, from bitter experience, that we of the Linkery must occasionally inform you that the item you came in for has been 86′d. We’re not trying to be...

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  • The first way needs no explaining, if you were smart and attended the CSA Partee last night at El Take It Easy. You witnessed Lucila de Alejandro, the inimitable doyenne...

    (W)rap, Two Ways

    The first way needs no explaining, if you were smart and attended the CSA Partee last night at El Take It Easy. You witnessed Lucila de Alejandro, the inimitable doyenne...

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  • The real reason we do everything in house? We want to be able to smell it when it comes out of the oven. We get off on the sensory overload...

    Food as Performance Art

    The real reason we do everything in house? We want to be able to smell it when it comes out of the oven. We get off on the sensory overload...

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  • You must have noticed how hot it has been the past week. The sun has been unusually aggressive, impossible to escape as alimony payments, whether you’re indoors or out. It...

    Slow Burn

    You must have noticed how hot it has been the past week. The sun has been unusually aggressive, impossible to escape as alimony payments, whether you’re indoors or out. It...

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  • Every time the kitchen makes semifreddo, I bother them for an explanation of how it’s made. It’s easy enough to remember–egg whites and sugar and whatever characteristic ingredient they select...

    Notes on a Lineup

    Every time the kitchen makes semifreddo, I bother them for an explanation of how it’s made. It’s easy enough to remember–egg whites and sugar and whatever characteristic ingredient they select...

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  • If the Grateful Dead were to record a cover album of The Sound of Music, Fallbrook’s Fenton Family Farm would be the result. (…probably better throw Dr. Seuss into that...

    The Hills are Alive

    If the Grateful Dead were to record a cover album of The Sound of Music, Fallbrook’s Fenton Family Farm would be the result. (…probably better throw Dr. Seuss into that...

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