Poor Man's Feast

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Maggie Smith: a breakfast conversation
On Dutch Babies and Chinese Food
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the things we cling to
On Sustenance and the Sieve of Memory [RECIPE]
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because of music.
A short film about the passage of time, the question of ghosts, and what love sounds like.
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competitive sorrow
On Being Tender to the Living
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October 2023
Reading Room: Maggie Smith’s top Substack reads
In this series, we explore what Substack writers are reading by asking them for a tour of their reading list.
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Maira Kalman: a breakfast conversation
on cake and coffee
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the ground is real.
Dreams and Nightmares and the Epigenetics of Taste [RECIPE]
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tangled vines and poison leaves
The End of a Garden
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your mother and my mother
They were friends.
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midweek delights
What I'm reading, listening to, cooking, learning from during the first week of October
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in my autumn kitchen
A backyard dinner. [RECIPE]
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imagination and memory go with them.
On the Life and Death of a Tree
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