Milky, creamy blobs of mozzarella are melted over the top with plenty of torn basil.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp.
Dabbing the cloth in rubbing alcohol, working away the dirty blots on the glass, waiting for the haze in my head to focus, and a new line to come to me.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
One of the few blots on last summer’s Leeds copybook.
In Mexico City, Centro Culinario Ambrosía teaches the art of Mexican cuisine in a professional kitchen, walking food enthusiasts through Oaxaca’s rich moles and Yucatán’s smoky spices.
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Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
9 June 2026
Food enthusiasts learn the art of Mexican cooking from Oaxaca’s rich moles to Yucatán’s smoky spices, with additional classes on more general fundamentals like laminating pastry dough.
George Washington, this nation’s first general, its inaugural president, the eponym of its capital city, left one of his most indelible marks on America from afar.
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Lonnie G. Bunch III,
The Atlantic,
4 July 2026
It is consistently ranked the top barbecue restaurant inside Fort Worth by Texas Monthly magazine and in other ratings, although Goldee’s Barbecue near Kennedale and Dayne’s Craft Barbecue in Aledo get higher marks from most reviewers.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 July 2026
As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth.
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2026
This recipe has a citrus base that feels seasonally appropriate with splashes of Tabasco which add extra heat.
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Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
4 July 2026
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