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A Messy Kitchen Thanksgiving – We’re Sophomores Now!

Notes from a Messy Kitchen

We learned a few things hosting our first Thanksgiving dinner last year. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving last year, I found myself sitting at Shake Shack at 9:00 pm eating a pumpkin concrete after a three hour happy hour while trying to find a liquor store open to buy bourbon for the...

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A Bookalokal Taste of Brazil: Feijoada & Pão de Queijo

Adventures of a Wannabe Foodie

Saturday we had our first experience with Bookalokal, a global dining community similar to Airbnb, except that instead of a place to crash you get good company and delicious home cooked meals! (In case you’re starting to see a theme here, yes, my entire social life revolves around food. Glad...

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The Messy Kitchen’s First Thanksgiving

Notes from a Messy Kitchen

The Messy Kitchen was in full swing this week as I prepared to host my very first Thanksgiving dinner. As always, I had ambitious plans for the occasion. Although there were only seven of us, between the twenty pound (humanly-raised!) bird and an absurd amount of sides, I’m quite sure...

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Chaos Cooking and Sushi Making

Notes from a Messy Kitchen

Tuesday night, Courtney and I went to our first evening of Chaos Cooking, an event I randomly stumbled upon somewhere on the Internets. It goes something like this: you sign up on the website and are given the address to a home where you’re to show up with all of...

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