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An Easy Way to Make French Fries

The trick is to put the potatoes into cold oil and slowly bring it up to frying temperature. I’ve known about this for decades: Back in the 1970s, my friend Tom Kingston told me that this was how his mother always did it. This sounded so loony that I didn

posted on 03/20/2010 to bitten, blog, food, how-to, nytimes by walker

Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels

Pixels operate differently on screen than they do as blobs of ink on paper, so a new typeface for the Web needed different qualities.

posted on 01/13/2010 to new york times, nytimes, typeface, typography by walker

The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later

A historical look at points along the 28-mile border that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 until 1989.

posted on 11/07/2009 to berlin wall, germany, nytimes, photography by walker

On the Rocks

Clingstone is a faded and shingled 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

posted on 07/28/2009 to nytimes, photographs, photos by walker

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