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on “trophy wife”

by Rob Friesel

Is there really a better, more apt, more semantically appropriate expression in modern English 1 than “trophy wife”?  Consider it: There is (perhaps) a hard-won battle in leading up to the “winning” of the trophy. But once you have that trophy, all that’s left is the memory of that winning… …the trophy itself is dead […]

the greatest cookbook of all time?

by Rob Friesel

Today we discovered the greatest cookbook ever published. The Bacon Cookbook. I shit you not. This is a cookbook’s entire focus is bacon.  Bacon!  Pancetta.  Salt pork.  Guanciale.  Lard fumé.  Pork belly.  Bacon!  Every recipe involves bacon.  From bacon-based appetizers, stews with bacon, bacon entrees, clear through to bacon-wrapped desserts. I cannot wait to try […]