More Salad, Please!

The Stack of the Week

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Dear reader,

If you are reading this in the United States, then you may not yet have recovered from our annual carb-pocalypse known as Thanksgiving. After all, there are all of those leftovers to consider. (There was a cartoon on The New Yorker’s instagram feed this week in which a man says to his partner: “Help me to eat this turkey-mashed-potato-cranberry-sauce-apple-pie sandwich so we can move on with our lives.”) Don’t get me wrong: I love Thanksgiving. But by the time Saturday and Sunday roll around, we are feeling a bit bloated and lethargic, as we wonder how we are going to motivate our slothful bodies to work on Monday.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving-recovery, I give you The Stack of the Week: The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin, by

emily nunn

. It is a newsletter that will prove to you that the world of salad is greater and more immersive than you would have imagined. You come for the recipes and you stay for the brilliant, funny, poignant writing. While many of the recipes are paywalled, you can get a generous sample of Emily’s prose with the free subscription, which will likely convince you that it’s worth upgrading to get access to the rest. It certainly convinced me.

In addition to recipes, Emily also will introduce you to other great salad creators, cookbooks with good salads, her dog Cookie, and the boys in the lab. (I always wonder: do the boys wear white lab coats?)

Here is an excellent sample post from the past week:

"Oh, No! We Forgot a Salad!"

While this was her Thanksgiving post, I’m sure that the recipes will serve you well the week after. When you see the pictures, you will want to make these salads.

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That’s it for today. I hope that those who celebrated had a lovely holiday. This week I’ll be back on Wednesday with the next “Clapping Back to Misogyny” essay, along with Friday’s Bird-Bolts.

Thanks for reading, from my fancy internet typewriter to yours.

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