Ann Davis-Rowe
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As briefly mentioned in last week’s roundup, I had two super fun performing events last week. The first was Storytime with Piedmont Opera. It was a lot of fun to get to perform while pretending to use my masters degree in library science for once. After learning a little bit about the opera and the…
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🍴: Mon – ramen noodle salad with Chinese sausage as inspired by this month’s Food & Wine. Tues – cider vinegar-braised chicken thighs, also from this month’s F&W. Wed – Domino’s. Because we won’t talk too much about what happened last night when Hampton tried to braise chicken thighs before rehearsal when he was already…
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Democracy will not comeToday, this yearNor everThrough compromise and fear. — Langston Hughes, “Democracy” I somehow recently ended up on the mailing list of the Mellon Foundation, and they recently re-shared a story from 2021 about the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month. In it, they had three contemporary poets read historical poems, and these…
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🍴: Mon – TJ’s lemon ricotta ravioli with the end of a pack of speck and a leftover Comte cheese cream sauce with some horseradish, salad. Tues – pink peppercorn steak frites, salad Wed – vaguely SWANA-esque chicken thighs with lentils, asparagus Thur – Thai-ish mussels Fri – a borlotti lamon smash with roasted romanesco…
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The other week, a colleague — a former professional dancer and teacher — asked me if I would be interested in teaching a tap class for drama students. I said heck no, but what is the stipend because I know people to ask. Turns out I misinterpreted, she had the time to teach, but wanted…
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🍴: Mon – grilled chicken thighs and crispy herb butter oyster mushrooms with arugula and labneh. Tues – one of our fave takeaways from Vietnam was banana flower, sliced up into salads. We both hate bananas, but were stoked to find the flower at Super G last weekend. We added it and green mango to…
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🍴: Mon — bacon/smoked gouda burgers with fries and salad Tues — Hot dang this take on http://fennel-twist.com/2011/06/26/mango-mango-mango-grilled-chile-lime-arctic-char-with-mango-slaw/ Hampton is rather spice averse but decided he wanted habanero in the slaw. Soaked it for a bit in vodka to pull out heat, added corn + peanuts for extra texture, subbed ancho for chipotle on the…
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I grew up five minutes from the Mason-Dixon Line and 45 from Gettysburg, and Hampton’s dad is a rare book dealer with a specialty in Civil War ephemera, so I was tickled yesterday to learn a story we’d never heard before to mark the 150th anniversary of the war over “states’ rights”. [the right to…
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Late again. I don’t have an excuse, but I do have four books linked below. All finished this weekend. 🍴: Mon – Lemony Summer Squash Orecchiette plus shrimp. I may or may not have made a bad choice about not using a cut glove with our new mandoline. Never question. Just do it. Not an…
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It’s me. I’m the April Fool. 🍴: Mon — fesenjan, a chicken and walnut stew with pomegranate arils, kale, and red bell pepper, served over pearled couscous Tues — Hampton came to my show, so we checked out Stock & Grain food hall and had some darn good sushi. Wed — I had a work…
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