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February Peels (2026)
moonscapes, mountains; pages, tagine recipes; sun-kissed and writing and writing
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The Secret History of my Palate in Five Drams
Scotland, be my terroir, and one excellent veggie haggis ragù for my pappardelle; reflections on home after two years in Scotland; a play, of sorts
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January Peels (2026)
soups soups, fever, soups and rage and beloved midnight pasta; some excellent books and a quick mousse au chocolat
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(in theory) i had finished the recipe notebook
after Hamnet’s aliveness, on reframing and Simone de Beauvoir’s personal (responsible) freedom
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December Peels (2025)
yet another sunrise but one for the moon; some books, some recipes, some walks
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November Peels (2025)
leftovers; nostalgia comes in forty-eight-hour sprints; i love november skies the most
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not in Paris: recalling the canon
on reading in 2025, some books; on language and why i love reading
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the window: an interlude
after Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, written in situ but dispatched upon returning from the lighthouse
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October Peels (2025)
swimming as the magpies land; brilliant books, beans, broths; recipe for a miso and carrot cake
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the garden that didn’t flower: on symptoms
after Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf and Robin Wall Kimmerer
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September Peels (2025)
broccoli, short stories, one-pot meals, sleepy playlists; the season is changing, i'm moody!
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memory is a dreamer: after Emma Bovary
the correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand; re-reading Madame Bovary, again, against despair
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The Onion Papers
The Onion Papers
storytelling in the kitchen. curious essays are dispatched every other Thursday; Peels, a writer's almanac, comes out on the first Monday of each month
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