Chef – Dinner For Suckers

May 9, 2025

Cookiegram

My note with the cookies this year: “Dear ###, Happy Vesak! Though full disclosure – none of these cookies are particularly Buddhist. I hope that won’t stop you from enjoying them in the spirit with which they were made: affectionately and with gratitude. It is no small joy to bake for you. -J”

Fine Dining

This is all just a practice. A menu based on tonight’s dinner. I’m always wishing I had the job of writing my own menus. Of presenting food I’ve made to droves of hungry gatherers. Of knowing every dimension of what satisfaction really means: how it reads, how it tastes, how it feels. So I’m writing…

Shell

I have been going through a consumer panic for the PS5, lately. I have a perfectly functional PS4 that I use to play games on the same TV I’ve had since before owning a PS3. I have no idea where this impulse is coming from. I don’t need the game system. I cannot justify prioritizing…