Food was good because a chef made it so. The finesse and knowledge required to poach a chicken in a pig’s bladder or cook a sea bass in pastry can’t simply be plucked from the ground.
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The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. Raw
Following up on Friday's post, Law Profs: Beware The Perils Of Twitter: Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Rise and Fall of My Use of Twitter:
I have found that the reward from "status" on Twitter is simply not great. For journalism, it remains, sadly, nearly ubiquitous. A majority of media inquiries now start from a tweet; indeed, a non-trivial number of media mentions fail to even inquire of me and simply (lazily) cite my tweet. Using Twitter less means fewer citations in journalists' pieces, but such is the tradeoff. Furthermore, I've found that a lot of media now focuses on what people say on Twitter, and then how others react to those statements on Twitter—a deeply meta, and often, I think, deeply superficial way of thinking about newsworthiness.
Furthermore, I've watched a number of law professors (and others) lose a significant amount of their credibility (in my eyes, at least, and I think, to some degree, in the eyes of at least some others) by succumbing to the allure of fleeting social media fame. It moves beyond branding into a quasi-celebrity status. It's something that I want to separate myself from. ...
ART OF THE MEMOIR, Part Three My mother's family was much harder to trace for my brother. Her father's family name, Grieb, is clearly not their original name either. Her father...
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ART OF THE MEMOIR, Part Three My mother's family was much harder to trace for my brother. Her father's family name, Grieb, is clearly not their original name either. Her father...
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