Dear English 269 members: Love is like a red wine reduction. In cooking, a reduction means to simmer a liquid until only the flavorful compounds remain.  A red wine reduction, for example—the French workhorse sauce— is to boil a bottle of wine until there remains just one precious cup, thick as nectar, filled with fruit […]

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Dear English 269 members: If there was no such thing as salt, what would we lose? What if there were no songs to be sung, no poems to be read, no stories to be told, No lions on the plains, no fish in the sea, no flowers in the fields? Is sex only for making […]

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