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Some evenings do not allow for ceremony.

There is a particular kind of pleasure in breaking open something that looks composed and finding something molten …

Some weeknights ask for something generous — not elaborate, not fussy, but genuinely good.

I want to be honest with you: this is not the kind of recipe that usually appears on Café Thinkers.

There is a café in Melbourne's Fitzroy neighborhood — the same one where I first had ricotta toast with roasted figs — …

There is a particular kind of evening that arrives in October — the light already gone by five, the radiator ticking …