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May.07.2013
The Royal We went to a diner specializing in homemade waffles. I eyed the choices--pecan waffles, walnut waffles, waffles with sliced strawberries or sliced peaches.
I couldn't make up my mind.
"Nuts," I said.
But which kind?
Walnut, I thought. No, pecan.
I was waffling.
The waiter said, "What will...
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Apr.28.2013
In what was a culinary first for pastry chefs everywhere, Baking Expert Chef E has done it again. Chef E, who trained at the renowned Munchy Punchy Culinary Arts Academy, has created a sweet phenomenon.
"You said it couldn't be done, but I say it can," she told reporters.
On her cooking show, "...
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Apr.19.2013
Movie business runs in my family. Yours truly had a minor role in a film, "Some Prefer Cake." It was so minor, my big screen debut was over in a blink of an eye. Just for the record, I played the cake eater. It was the perfect part for me. Only thing that was difficult was eating the cake--it was...
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Apr.17.2013
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then what about absentmindedness?
I needed to write a check for my new writing class, so I got out a check, noting the number--531--in my mind. I folded the check in thirds and put it in a small purse inside my pocket. A little while later, I remembered I...
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Apr.02.2013
Greetings!
I am delighted to let you know that my essay, "The Flip Side of Coming Out," has been selected as a finalist in the Truth In Words Contest.
In order to win this contest, I need your help.
I would be extremely grateful to you if you could first please
LIKE my essay:...
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Mar.31.2013
Don't believe the rumors. The article you read in People simply isn't true. I'm not enravished with the radish.
That became all too clear at the farmers market, after I ate a raw cacao truffle and then, a few minutes later, sampled a slice of radish.
Although I became a trendsetter a few...
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Mar.29.2013
I am happy to report the search is over: I found my missing sock.
We can breathe easy now.
If you were part of the search committee, thank you. Thank you also to those who brought food so I wouldn't have to cook during this stressful time.
And it was stressful.
According to the 2012 U.S....
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Mar.23.2013
I recently joined a group for those who, like myself, are passionate potluck people. It's my new professional organization.
I was going to make mandel bread, but on a whim decided to make mandel bread without the mandel. Instead of slivered almonds, I substituted cocoa, poppy seeds, and...
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Mar.08.2013
I am happy to report I just won another metal.
The first time I won, I had gone to a small restaurant. I ordered a lunch special--tofu, rice, gravy, and water chestnuts. The tofu and rice were nondescript, so I added some gravy. I mixed everything together on my plate. I put some in my mouth...
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Mar.06.2013
I sat on my bed and opened my journal to a clean page. I had my notebook, my pen. I was all set to write.
And then I heard it.
The first rumble of hunger.
My stomach rumbled again, loud as thunder.
Write or eat? I wanted to write, but maybe I was better off eating first. I wondered what...
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Mar.02.2013
The other day at the grocery store, a new item caught my attention. I thought I was seeing things, and blinked. I inched closer. Hard to believe, but chocolate with salami and smoked bacon looked back at me. I was tempted, but decided to opt out. I last ate red meat thirty years ago and didn't want...
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Feb.28.2013
To Who It May Concern:
We need your support.
Unless immediate action is taken, we are in danger of losing Whom.
Please take the time to sign our petition circulating the Internet and attend our rally at the State Capitol.
Do not be swayed by you know Who.
Protect Whom from extinction....
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Feb.25.2013
A few weeks ago, I was craving gingerbread, so I paid a visit to Crixa because its ginger cake is the most gingery cake I've tasted. It's so dense with ginger, ten years had passed since my last sampling.
When I walked in, I headed to the display case. I looked at the cake with longing. "...
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Feb.17.2013
On my trip to Hong Kong, I bought three shirts. In my recollection of my collection, the colors were orange, pink, and blue. I was thinking of the orange shirt and couldn't remember when I had last seen it. I recalled it as being pure orange, much like the skin of a mandarin.
I looked in my laundry...
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Feb.12.2013
Many years ago, while hanging out at a cafe with friends, my eye caught that of one man’s and we smiled. Instantly, I felt attracted to him, and when he gave his business card to a friend, I squinted across the table, trying to read the phone number. All I could see was his last name, or so I...
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About Eva
Eva Schlesinger grew up writing fiction, which somersaulted into poetry and the occasional essay. She is the author of the chapbooks, Ode 2 Codes & Codfish (slated for publication by dancing girl press in 2013), View From My Banilla Vanilla Villa (dancing...
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Causes Eva Schlesinger Supports
Center For Young Women's Development
Girls, Inc.
Alameda County Library Foundation
Glide Foundation
Eva’s Favorite Books
The Moffats, The Trouble With Jenny's Ear, She, The Adventuress, Twig, Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth...
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