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My Dad’s Bread

My Dad’s Bread

My father took an early retirement from the sinking ship of print journalism and has, for the past few semesters, been attending cooking school. Its his and my mom’s dream to run a bed & breakfast in New England, so he’s honing his commercial kitchen skills to be the “breakfast” half of the equation (my […]

Maker Birthdays: Jules Verne

Maker Birthdays: Jules Verne

French author Jules Verne was born on this day in 1828. His father wanted him to be a lawyer and circumstances forced him to work as a stock broker, but eventually he shook off these humdrum vocations and became the world’s first professional science fiction author. Verne quickly gained a reputation for combining ultramodern technology […]