The Old Reader

24 Apr 16:52

steamed artichokes

by deb

Artichokes are my favorite vegetable. My favorite way to eat them is the way I have my whole life: cooked whole, each leaf dipped in a sharp lemony sauce until you get to the heart, whose choke you free with a butter knife then schmear with the sauce like you’re thickly buttering a piece of bread, and eat it while holding the stem like a lollipop, your eyes closed as you absorb the heady bliss of it all. Clearly, it means a lot to me but I’m not sharing a recipe with three words: Just boil them. A few years ago I started steaming artichokes instead of boiling them and found I preferred it — less wet, and seemingly more evenly cooked. But it still didn’t warrant mention here, though, too simple.

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Terrible things are going down

by Matthew Inman

Shit hits the fan

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26 Apr 10:00

Bazed And Confused

New Comic: Bazed And Confused

24 Apr 17:18

Wednesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen

1. U.S. vs. Taiwanese work culture.

2. Albert Wensemius and the rise of Singapore.

3. Unusual questions answered by Megan McArdle.

4. Why Panama dollarized.

5. New open access book on prices and games by Michael Richter and Ariel Rubinstein.

6. Canada now limiting immigration.

7. “In the fiscal year 2023, more than half of the irregular arrivals at the US’s southern border were from countries outside Mexico and northern Central America for the first time…” FT here, source here.

7. Helen Vendler, RIP.

8. A possible plateau in opioid and drug overdose deaths? (limited data, but possibly true)

9. A different way to deal with non-competes?

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25 Apr 05:39

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