Slower, better, and worth the effort
The category has a bad habit. A company sells a device, runs the servers it depends on for a few years, gets acquired or loses interest, and switches them off. The hardware on your wall is fine. The service that made it work is…
Read more →Camp cooking is mostly a solved problem until the weather turns. Then the differences between stoves stop being preferences and start being the reason you get a hot drink or don't. Cold drops the pressure in a gas canister. Wind carries away most of…
Read more →The first winter trip most people take is up a hill they already know. That is a reasonable instinct and it is also where the trouble starts, because the route in your head is the summer one. The grassy shoulder you strolled up in…
Read more →Cast iron attracts more folklore than any other object in a kitchen. Never use soap. Never cook tomatoes in it. Never wash it at all, just wipe it out with a paper towel and let the layers build. Most of those rules are half-remembered…
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