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Irvin Lin
@eatthelove.bsky.social
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Oh god. Do I have to write another bio about myself?

writer. photographer. recipe developer. cookbook author. ceramicist/pottery nerd. national park enthusiast. queer 🏳️‍🌈. taiwanese-american. san francisco based.

Site: www.eatthelove.com
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I typically don’t do the reskeets because I rarely have anything interesting to add, but I am PARTICULAR proud of my first vinyl album that I bought.

(Also proud of my first cassette, though I could have picked better for my first CD.)
The cover of the first eponymous album by New Edition released in 1984. The photo has the words “New Edition” at the top, and five young black men sitting and standing as a group portrait.
July 22, 2023 at 8:03 PM
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You need a batch “hopper-style” cherry pitter. Leifheit makes one. It’s not cheap. But it makes putting cherries SUPER fast and easy.
A plastic batch “hopper-style” cherry pitter, sitting sideways on a marble surface.
July 17, 2023 at 6:15 AM
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Beautiful!

Flower #4 in your group is a a South African protea flower and they grow them in southern California! I went to a protea farm a couple of months ago during a press trip. It was gorgeous.
Red protea flowers, which are South African in origin and look like large round flowers made of individual stems that form a half dome on top, growing in a field. A field of protea flowers with a hill scape behind it. A close up macro photo of a yellow protea flower, with a bee butt sticking out of it. A cluster of orange protea flowers growing in a hillside.
July 16, 2023 at 7:53 PM
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SO. TANG.
An old vintage ad for Tang. A jar of Tang, a powdered orange beverage is sitting on the kitchen counter with a boy and a mother standing behind it.
July 13, 2023 at 1:27 AM
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OMG. The back is 🔥🔥🔥!

It does remind me of an installation of the spoon wedding dress that Fishs Eddy had in NY for awhile in their window.
A wedding dress made of silver spoons on display at the NY store Fishs Eddy.
July 12, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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You have inspired me to pull out my long pepper, cubeb, and grains of paradise! I am going to use them!
Plastic spice grinder filled with Cubeb pepper, grains for paradise, and long pepper.
July 12, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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I think I have more than this. But this is what I could easily find in my cupboard.

I basically only use the use the Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt in the large red box for most cooking and baking. I really need to use up some of the others…
A collection of various specialty and cooking salts, including Maldon, Diamond Crystal, fleur de sel, and other finishing salts.
July 12, 2023 at 5:33 PM
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What is this #PortfolioDay hashtag? It's giving me PTSD from my art school days.

But because I am very susceptible to peer pressure, here's some more pottery and ceramics so I can participate.

1. wheel thrown & carved blate (bowl plate)
2. slab plate
3. large wheel thrown bowl
4. slab cheeseboard
small round shadow bowl, with carved with orange and white lines creating a pattern from the edge to the center, dividing the piece into quarters. Oval shaped glossy black plate, with wavy lines in it. A hand is reaching for the plate, to give it size reference. Large bowl with orange and moss green pattern lines on it, dividing the bowl into quarters. A hand is reaching for the bowl as a reference point for size. A small eggplant shaped cheese board that is orange and has gold green lines that criss cross the top of the board in an irregular shaped pattern. A hand is reaching for the board, giving scale.
July 11, 2023 at 11:07 PM
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In case you all didn’t know, I develop recipes & write about food & products.

Here are some examples of me being extra with my recipes.

• Miso caramel soy sauce brownies
• Pretzel pizza Shakshuka
• Manhattan Cocktail Bundt cake
• Miso Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Crystallized Ginger
A small ceramic plate with miso caramel soy sauce brownies piled on it. Two pretzel pizza style shakshukas on a slate board. There is an egg and a small bowl of black and white sesame seeds sitting on a stalk of parsley next to the pizza. A slice of Manhattan Cocktail Bundt cake with a piece taken out on fork sitting on a pile of plates. Behind the plates is a cake stand with the remaining Bundt cake. There is a small bowl of red Maraschino cherries behind the cake stand out of focus. An oval white plate with miso peanut butter chocolate chip cookies with crystallized ginger and black sesame seeds on it. There are more cookies on a wire cooling rack next to it.
July 11, 2023 at 7:36 PM
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You should also add in @boygirlparty.bsky.social's companion book Little Muir's Song! They're a great pair!
The cover of the book Little Muir's Song, with John Muir illustrated on the cover looking out onto a valley. Theirs is a spread open with illustrated John Muir looking at adorable singing birds. There is copy on the photo that says "Little Muir's Song. Words by John Muir. Artwork by Susie Ghahremani. All sales benefit Yosemite."
July 11, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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OMG. It's LEGIT.

I didn't make it this year. But I did make a large cherry apricot slab pie with a crumb topping for a large dinner party I went to before my husband took off for the AIDS lifecycle. His riding team always does a pre-ride dinner.

They all seemed to love the pie!
A square slice of apricot cherry slab pie with an oat crumb topping. The slice of pie is on a ceramic plate, and the remaining pie is behind it out of focus.
July 11, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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I don’t really have one! I bake specific to the people I’m entertaining, to the amount of folks there, and/or the produce that is in season (or, the holiday).

But if I had a choice, I’d make a seasonal fruit slab pies. They’re a higher crust to filling ratio and they feed a crowd.
A peach slab pie with two square slices of pie on plates. A large square slice of a cherry slab pie on a ceramic plate. The remains slab pie is next to the plate with a serving utensil in the pan. A berry rhubarb slab pie with three pieces of square slices cut out. The top crust is a woven crust. An apple, prunes and brandy slab pie sitting on a wire cooling rack, with apples around it. There is a small plate of prunes next to the apples, as well as sticks of cinnamon.
July 11, 2023 at 4:36 AM
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The old Ask Jeeves logo. A cartoon illustrated old, bald, white man in a suit holding out his hand gesturing to the words Ask Jeeves.
July 10, 2023 at 12:03 AM
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Because of a work project, I had to buy a "marbled" fabric photo background. So I made my husband take an Olan Mill studio style photo with me.

Except my husband was too lazy to change out of his Star Wars Christmas pajamas. So this is what I now have.

I'm think of framing it.
An Asian guy in a blue cable knit sweater standing in front, with a white man with a large beard and glasses wearing a Christmas Star Wars long sleeve t-shirt pajama top behind him, with his arms wrapped around him. There is a white "Olan Mills" logo on the bottom right corner.
July 9, 2023 at 7:39 PM
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Thanks all who welcomed me, commented, liked, & reposted my ceramics!

@netherye.bsky.social asked if I did wheel thrown or hand-built ceramic work. I mostly do wheel thrown. But every now and then I hand build.

Here are a few hand built ceramic pieces!

#art #craft 🧶 (are hashtags a thing here?)
Five small white ceramic plates, with dark speckles and burlap texture in them, sitting on two different pieces of dark and light tan fabric. An egg shaped ceramic plate with streaks of gold orange, white and black glaze on it. It is sitting on a neutral white piece of fabric. An irregular shaped shallow ceramic bowl-plate, glazed with milky white glaze with threads of gold in the glazing. A tall vermillion-orange ceramic mug that has the texture of rough burlap. Sitting in white neutral fabric.
July 9, 2023 at 12:18 AM
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My friend @boygirlparty.bsky.social told me I should post my ceramics here on BlueSky.

Even though I’m pretty sure no one wants to see them.

But here are some ceramics I made. Always happy to talk pottery with folks if there are any potters here on BlueSky.
A blue ceramic mug with black metallic patterned lines that looks a bit like fish scales. The mug is sitting on a white marble surface with a white tiled background. A light blue carved ceramic mug. The mug is sitting on a white marble surface with a white tiled background. A light blue and white carved large ceramic bowl sitting on two pieces of beige fabric. A vermillion orange-red, white and black organically decorated large ceramic bowl. A hand is reaching for the bowl, showing scale.
July 7, 2023 at 10:45 PM