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I’ve been meaning to share this recipe for garlic confit mashed potatoes for *gulp* the last two weeks, but I figure now is as good a time as any. Listen, you still have a few days before Thanksgiving to make some last minute menu changes, and I promise you already have everything on your grocery list to make spuds. I think garlic confit makes basically… ncG1vNJzZmiZnJrFqr%2FDnpmoq5Odu6a3jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5yus7jInGScp56btrV5zJqqoZ2UYr2wwMCtpp6r

Welcome to To Vegetables, With Love, a celebration of a vegetable life, less ordinary. My book Tenderheart is available from Books are Magic, Kitchen, Arts and Letters, Book Larder, Bold Fork Books and also here or here. Our diets and what we like and dislike to eat changes as we get older. In recent times, my intake of leafy greens has been at an all time high. For several years, I have eaten an iteration of the avocado massaged kale salad in Tenderheart three to four times a week, usually with stellar line up of toppings - roasted veg, tofu, pickles, things from the freezer like falafels, dumplings or my favourite cauliflower hash browns.

<![CDATA[Subscribe now Hello Garrison, I’m a card carrying, bona fide, lifelong liberal. But to be honest, I miss having an opposition party that’s true to their mission statement. Used to be that the Republican message could be stated simply: reduce the size of government, pass the resulting savings back to the people in the form of tax reduction and deficit reduction. Allow folks to do, in their personal, private lives, whatever they’re drawn to do, as long as the government is not asked to pay for it.

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The next few despatches from me will be traveller’s letters from a recent trip to Gaziantep and Hatay, two of the most exciting food cities of Turkey. But there’s more to unpack than food, too: a long and eventful history and the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes earlier this year. Subscribe for free to receive the traveller’s letters, or upgrade to paid to get recipes to go along with the letters.

As we prepare to watch chef Kevin Lee take his swing at crashing Guy Fieri’s $150,000 Tournament of Champions on Wednesday, thought I’d share a few notes to stir the appetite. First, as posted a couple of times, Lee will host a watch party tonight at Birdie’s by Chef Kevin Lee. The show airs on Food Network at 7 p.m. Lee has a new bar menu he plans to introduce, including some dynamite fried catfish bites he tested at the Made in Oklahoma Coalition’s recent showcase in Will Rogers Theatre.

For almost 400 pages of Anvil Gate, I was convinced I was going to write a lore -post about the Lambent in the Gears of War franchise. I was fully expecting myself to sit down today and talk about the Locust vs. Lambent war and how these events eventually lead us to Gears of War 3. But then, Anvil Gate decided to put all its cards on the table and said, “the fuck you are, buddy.

(April 1st is the 10 year anniversary of Geek and Sundry, my old digital media company. A tiny bit of this essay appears in my memoir “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)” but it’s mostly new!) In the fall of 2011, YouTube decided to invest in fancier videos for their platform, and they were willing to spend one hundred million dollars to make it happen. The deal they offered was unique and revolutionary and suddenly everyone, even people who got lots of free sneakers like Ashton Kutcher, lined up to be a part of the program.

Before getting to today’s newsletter, a quick note from me: I’ll be starting a new job in January, returning to full-time work for the first time since I started World War II on Deadline in early 2020. That will leave me less time to work on this project, and though I hope to continue writing these on the side when possible, the frequency of newsletters certainly will diminish. Whatever happens with this going forward, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all of you who have taken the time to read these stories and reach out to me about them over the last couple of years.