Monthly Archives: December 2019

The Christmas we burned everything, but ate it anyway

Ok, not everythingjust the butterscotch pecan rollsthat I make once a yearbut dream of more oftenthat when perfectand they have been perfectdrip and glisten and ever so slightly saturatewith butter-beautiful sugar-sticky goo But this year I learnedthat if you brown … Continue reading

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Requiem for a Lab Protocol

As many of you know, my doctoral thesis comprises two experiments and a breeding project revolving around geosmin, the molecule that confers earthy aroma to table beets. I, like the two Goldman Lab beet researchers before me, have measured geosmin … Continue reading

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