Categories
Finds

Crispy Garlic Baked Potato Wedges

https://ift.tt/2EpNE03
Excerpt:

“Crispy Garlic Baked Potato Wedges are soft pillows on the inside, crunchy on the outside with a good kick of garlic and parmesan cheese, and NO pre-soaking or parboiling needed! Crispy Garlic Baked Potato Wedges… Bet you’ve never had them with so many amazing flavours before! When I first st”

Categories
Finds

Mocking Abcde’s name was wrong, but so is setting a child up for mockery

https://ift.tt/2KJOwO1
Excerpt:

“As someone who grew up with an unusual name, my heart goes out to 5-year-old Abcde and the ordeal she recently endured as an airline passenger.”

Categories
Finds

What the Hell Happened to Darius Miles?

https://ift.tt/2O57rDj
Excerpt:

“Dudes like me ain’t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I’m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven’t told anybody. But first, we gotta go back in time. We gotta go back to when the NBA was still the NBA. Way back when I had the pager with the two-way alert.”

Categories
Finds

How Food Empire Zingerman’s Was Built on Anarchist Theory

https://ift.tt/2OvRPh3
Excerpt:

“Zingerman’s, a group of 20 loosely associated businesses mostly focused on hospitality and food in the Ann Arbor area, encompasses a deli, bakehouse, restaurant, creamery, training organization, candy business, tour company and more.”

Categories
Finds

Passing sheep and a tree-lined waterway in Bruges: Sunday’s best photos

https://ift.tt/2S6a0rO
Excerpt:

“Hajjah, Yemen

Displaced Yemenis from Hodeida receive food aid in the district of Aslam

Photograph: Essa Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest”

Categories
Finds

The City That Had Too Much Money

https://ift.tt/2R1ROhz
Excerpt:

“Vancouver was the first place to experience the tidal wave of Chinese cash. Now the city is leading efforts to stop it. The cashier’s counting machine would need to run continuously for more than 10 minutes to riffle through all the notes, which came to more than C$250,000 ($192,000).”

Categories
Finds

brownie roll-out cookies

https://ift.tt/2in3X31
Excerpt:

“Brownie Roll-Out Cookies* Recipe from Deb’s mom 3 cups (375 grams) all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon (3 grams) salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup (225 grams) lightly salted butter, softened (Deb note: I don’t really see “lightly salted” much these days, so I used one stick salted, o”

Categories
Finds

Kiese Laymon Knows His New Memoir Is Raw. But It’s Not Trauma Porn.

https://ift.tt/2RRtZKz
Excerpt:

“With his new memoir, Heavy, the Southern writer cements his place in the canon of American literature.”

Categories
Finds

Smith and Carlos embodied many African Americans’ Summer of Love and Reckoning

https://ift.tt/2P2Tk5D
Excerpt:

“In the summer of 1967, 100,000 fashion-forward and social-forward youth gathered in San Francisco in what has famously been called the Summer of Love.”

Categories
Finds

‘If we wanted beauty, we’d travel to Paris’: how Calgary resisted its iconic pedestrian bridge

https://ift.tt/2AenH15
Excerpt:

“The celebrated Spanish architect was brought in to address a complicated brief. The crossing – connecting downtown to the northern river pathway and the community of Sunnyside – had to completely span the Bow River, while being flat enough to avoid obstructing a nearby helicopter-landing area.”