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“Spinach is absolutely best mates, lifetime mates with nutmeg and marjoram.” When he tells you something like that, how can you not want to cook everything he tells you to? Also, why is it that every British chef (on TV or in cookbooks) always gets to say that he is going to “whiz” something in the blender. Why do we, as crass Americans, have to blend or puree or chop when the proper British get to whiz? Not fair.

Only a little over two weeks until school starts. Right now, I am deep into the negative pit of energy. I have a week in New Jersey and New York to work it back up into the high range, which I will need desperately in order to get through the first few weeks and my first huge batch of papers to grade.