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gastronomy

Hey, would-be app developers looking for that million-dollar idea, here’s one. An application that functions like Bump, but instead of exchanging contact information, the Bumpers would share their arsenal of recipes utilizing zucchini. Because most people I know are being haunted by them right now. I’ve been in three kitchens other than my own in [...]

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Peach Slump

by eliz on August 4, 2009

Two years ago there was a frost one night on Easter weekend that killed all the buds on all the peach trees in upstate South Carolina. Come summer there were NO local peaches. NONE, I tell you. All we got that year were hard, green expensive orbs from North Dakota that smelled of nothing and [...]

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Punishing

by eliz on July 22, 2009

I know someone whose husband is spending $2000 a month on hookers, I recently learned. In addition to the financial evidence, as she knew the monthly figure, she also found an ad he had placed. Not surprisingly, he’s not looking for the kind of sex that ends with lots of talking into the night about [...]

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