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KARACOOKS
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Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • a bowl of fresh guacamole made for National Avocado Day

    Friday Roundup #34

    ByKara July 31July 31 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #34: National Avocado Day, a jumbotron birthday for Zach, Joro spiders in the garden, Olmsted’s Southern journeys, and a meh on The Odyssey.

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  • A white-tailed doe stands at the edge of a shallow creek, looking toward the camera, with an eroded root-tangled bank behind her.

    Friday Roundup #33

    ByKara July 24July 24 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #33: a curious creek-walk doe, our tattoo consults, a great dinner at Noosh, brussels sprouts sprouting, and a Duma Key reread.

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  • Macro close-up of a deep magenta and purple dinner-plate dahlia, its petals spiraling inward to a tightly coiled, pale-tipped center.

    Friday Roundup #32 (First Concert Since March Edition)

    ByKara July 17July 18 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #32: our first concert since March, the great email reckoning, Wicked parts one and two, and the dinner-plate dahlias gone wild in the rain.

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  • A bee on an orange cosmos bloom in the back garden, hero image for Friday Roundup #31

    Friday Roundup #31

    ByKara July 10July 12 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #31: a July 4 thunderstorm, a macro session with the garden bees, a big salad craving after too much bo ssam, and re-reading Killers of the Flower Moon.

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  • The vaulted, tiled Great Hall (Registry Room) at Ellis Island with two American flags, a Fourth of July reflection.

    Friday Roundup #30

    ByKara July 3July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    Friday Roundup #30: a complicated Fourth of July, a 2008 photo from the Great Hall at Ellis Island, fall brussels sprouts, and Momofuku Bo Ssam on the kamado.

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  • Red door in a whitewashed brick wall, Lynchburg, Virginia.

    Friday Roundup #29

    ByKara June 26July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    Friday Roundup: A thin week at karacooks: a garden running late, a monster love story up for a Hugo, ten pounds of cherries, and a gallon of mustard landing Thursday.

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  • A green anole with its mouth open and it's tongue sticking out, resting on the rim of a terracotta mint pot in the garden

    Friday Roundup #28

    ByKara June 19July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    A steamy Georgia-summer roundup: dirty spaghetti on the must-try list, Good Culture cottage cheese, the new Nora Roberts, cherry plums, and Kamado-grilled lunches.

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  • A double rainbow arching over a rain-soaked interstate highway under a slate-gray storm sky, with a distant overpass and green trees along the roadside

    Friday Roundup #27

    ByKara June 5July 12 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • The exterior of Notes of Marrakesh, a Moroccan restaurant visited on a Tulsa road trip

    Friday Roundup #26 (Live from Tulsa!)

    ByKara May 29July 12 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • Close-up of fresh white cape jasmine gardenia blossoms in full bloom, with bright yellow centers and dark glossy green leaves in the background.

    Friday Roundup #25 (Halfway to Tulsa Edition)

    ByKara May 22July 12 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Posted from the Napoleon Hotel in Memphis, with my feet up and something cold from the cooler. Well, y’all. I made it halfway. This week’s roundup comes to you from Memphis, where I’m crashing for the night before the second half of the drive to Tulsa tomorrow morning. My friend Anna is meeting me for…

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  • Close-up of fresh white cape jasmine gardenia blossoms in full bloom, with bright yellow centers and dark glossy green leaves in the background.

    Friday Roundup #24

    ByKara May 15July 12 Friday Roundup

    Y’all, what a week. Zach and I have both been down with whatever crud is going around. Mine started last Friday with a sore throat that sent me home early from work, and the next five days disappeared into a haze of DayQuil, NyQuil, hot toddies, chicken soup, and sleep. A full week later I’m…

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  • A thin crescent Earth, lit along its upper edge, rises above the cratered far side of the Moon against the black of space. NASA Artemis II flyby photograph, April 6, 2026.

    Friday Roundup #23 (From Florida, Because Mermaids)

    ByKara May 1July 12 Friday Roundup

    This roundup is coming to y’all from Weeki Wachee, where I’m spending the long weekend with a friend. If you’re not familiar, Weeki Wachee is a Florida state park where women have been performing as live mermaids in an underwater theater since 1947. Yes, really. And yes, we’re going to see them. We’ve rented a…

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