The most e-mailed article in the NYT for 2 days running? A ruminition on Mac N Cheese, with a couple of recipes. I tried the one for Creamy Macaroni and Cheese tonight-- and Lord! So good. Just to test the recipe, I followed the directions to the letter... it was delicious, though I think I could have easily included about 50% more pasta for all the sauce it made. It was super easy (no yukky white sauce to make/burn, don't need to precook the pasta), and amazing. It probably wouldn't taste that different with lowfat cottage cheese and 1% or skim milk... next time, I'll try that.
Robert Hass Many are making love. Up above, the angels in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing are braiding one another's hair, which is strawberry blond and the texture of cold rivers. They glance down from time to time at the awkward ecstasy-- it must look to them like featherless birds splashing in the spring puddle of a bed-- and then one woman, she is about to come, peels back the man's shut eyelids and says, look at me, and he does. Or is it the man tugging the curtain rope in that dark theater? Anyway, they do, they look at each other; two beings with evolved eyes, rapacious, startled, connected at the belly in an unbelievably sweet lubricious glue, stare at each other, and the angels are desolate. They hate it. They shudder pathetically like lithographs of Victorian beggars with perfect features and alabaster skin hawking rags in the lewd alleys of the novel. All of creation is offended by this distress. It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes, ...
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