Tag: Acton

  • Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets

    Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets

    This is one of my favorite entries in the whole archive: a grey plate of wings and a few strips of bacon, eaten at what is unmistakably a home office desk, keyboard included. I don’t remember exactly what possessed me to pair wings with bacon rather than, say, anything green, but February 2019 me clearly…

  • The Placemat Era

    The Placemat Era

    September 2018, Acton, and a blue plate resting on a placemat with enough pattern to suggest someone in this household was, at some point, trying to make dinner presentation a whole thing. The wings themselves look like a solid oven batch — good color, no obvious burnt bits, the placemat doing its part to elevate…