Great Zukes!

Perhaps this week is the one where I can — and perhaps you can — get out of a breakfast rut (yogurt and strawberry jam, in my case), and discover something new for the first meal of the day: breakfast udon, say; or everyday pancakes; or breakfast bars with oats and coconut.

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And we’re like lifeguards sitting high above the digital beach, should you find yourself in a riptide while in the kitchen or on your computer. Just sing out for help: [email protected]. Someone will get back you. (You can also write to me: [email protected]. I can’t respond to every letter. But I read each one sent.)

Now, it’s nothing to do with soft-shell crabs or crisp bibb lettuce, but I’ve been enjoying Eric Mennel’s podcast for Pineapple Street, “Stay Away from Matthew MaGill.” It’s part investigation, part self-reflection, and I won’t even attempt to outline the story: Just listen.

Here’s a new poem from Luisa A. Igloria, “Caulbearer,” in The Oxford American.

Do read Julia Smith in The London Review of Books, on the British Museum’s exhibition “Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint.”

source: nytimes.com