Ancient Grains Archive
Your Murderous Kitchen and its Residents
Ancient Grains, Food
Aug 26, 2013
Devoted readers know I have long been obsessed with the ease with which one can kill or maim oneself in the kitchen. Just the other day, a Toast commenter had to curtail their weightlifting after nearly losing a finger to their immersion blender. My father needed
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Watch It Now: The Golden Girls
Ancient Grains, Television
Aug 26, 2013
THE SHOW: Before Living Single, Sex and the City, Queer as Folk, or Girls, there was another quadruplet of TV friends eating cheesecake together and having casual intercourse. That’s right: The Golden Girls. When it launched in 1985, The Golden Girls was considered somewhat edgy for
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Intrusions, Ranked
Advice, Ancient Grains
Aug 26, 2013
15. Showing up at someone's house to deliver previously-ordered Girl Scout cookies.
14. Requesting toilet paper in a public bathroom.
13. Requesting a tampon in a public bathroom.
12. Email.
11. Facebook message.
10. Facebook chat.
9. Physical letter (tremendous sense of obligation conveyed).
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A Very Small Giveaway
Ancient Grains, Fitness
Aug 26, 2013
One lucky NYC-based Toastie who happens to be available Friday, August 30th at 7:30pm will get to have a free training session with ME and also Captain Superquads. What could be more thrilling? Nothing. You've seen him box jump. You've seen his unnecessarily optimistic plan for beginners. The prize is
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A History of One Woman’s Attitude towards Licorice
Ancient Grains, Food
Aug 23, 2013
April 1990: A week after Easter, the basket's largely depleted - tulle bedding (my mother having declared Easter grass tacky, perhaps her worst epithet, reserved for such atrocities as colored Christmas lights, My Little Ponies, and being called "mom" instead of "mama") squashed and chocolate-smudged. Jellybean count: one red and one green (lime
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Toast Posts of Note: The Week of August 23rd, 2013
Ancient Grains, Meta
Aug 23, 2013
Here's what you should have been reading this week. Or, you know, last week.
On Monday, Mallory presented "Texts From Dagny Taggart." That's Ayn Rand, if you're an innocent and happy person who doesn't know that. I told you about the things French women don't do, and JH Palmer
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Four Poems by Hannah Stephenson
Ancient Grains, Poetry
Aug 23, 2013
I know, I know. I joke all the time about how poetry destroys the lives and innocence of web editors. And yet, when I was emailed a PDF (or, you know, handed a bark-bound copy by a babbling brook by a white-tailed deer) of In
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A Conversation About The Wolverine
Ancient Grains, Movies
Aug 23, 2013
After a surprisingly not-awesome time at The Wolverine, the latest in Hugh Jackman's series of inspirational workout videos, we got in touch with our friend Phoenix Tso, who recently wrote about fightin' with strangers. And who is more strange than a mutant from the Marvel universe?
Nicole - So, essentially, I
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