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The Decemberists’ Picaresque is very likeable, but is it anything more?

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This bi-week, we’ll go back in time, and see how people used to do things. Below is an excerpt from the 1952 edition of The Joy of Cooking that discusses the subject of “larding.”

Lean meat is frequently “larded” to give it additional juiciness and flavor. Lardoons are thin strips of salt pork or bacon. French […]

Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata succeeds by focusing on the genuine.