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Brent Neal
@brentn.bsky.social
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Scientist. Obsessed with infrastructure and the constructed world. Food and culture.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and every other good, public and private.
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Folk Fest Day 2 - Sonny Miles!
September 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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EthnoUSA At the NC Folk Fest
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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BLT on an onion roll. chipotle bacon, homemade umami mayo, iceberg lettuce (ofc), Campari tomatoes, basil, and smoked pecan salt from Hatteras Saltworks.

#lunch #justcook #readyin30

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A delicious looking BLT sandwich with chips on a red plate. In the background, out of focus, is a patio table, with tree canopies reflected on the glass
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Squash, lentils, and rice. Mistakes were made, but it still came together. 😬 and it’s still super tasty.

#justcook #readyin30 #onlyifyoureprepped #andnotstupidlikeme
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Social butterfly cocktails with some fried plantains.
August 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Last night it was culinary mayhem with a side of thermodynamics. Tonight, it’s the #greensborosymphony.
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Great time last night with great friends.
March 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Symphony night!
February 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Saturday’s cooking is turkey bone gumbo with the stock I made last weekend from the Thanksgiving turkey carcass and the turkey meat from some turkey wings I roasted this afternoon. The Cajun holy trinity is chopped and ready to go into the roux I’ll make with the turkey fat skimmed off the broth.
Chopped sausage, shredded turkey, and chopped bell peppers, celery and onions, sitting in small bowls alongside of a large container of broth, some boughten oysters and a giant stock pot. In the foreground is a bunch of green onions and a jar of gumbo file.
December 7, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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How it started vs. now. Cooking ahead edition.
November 27, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Lemon-thyme chicken, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, and stir-fried squash, zucchini, and onions.
#weekdaydinner #justcook
November 19, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Monday mise en place
November 11, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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This guy also thinks it’s a great night to sit around a fire
October 18, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Perfect night for sitting around a fire.
October 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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Scathing review of Isaacson biography of Musk by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker. Most criticism reserved (deservedly) for the subject but the author does not escape criticism. Excellent read.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Money quote:
Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. Its participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold. Twitter does not operate on the principle of representation, which is the cornerstone of democratic governance. It has no concept of the “civil” in “civil society.”
September 17, 2023 at 2:20 AM