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Margaret Eby

@margareteby.bsky.social

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Food Editor @inquirer.com & writer other places sometimes. I will always the order the thing on the menu served on fire. 🍔 My cookbook You Gotta Eat, on how to feed yourself when you don't have the energy, is out NOW from Quirk!!! 🍔

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 23h

Hell yeah www.inquirer.com/phillies/har...

Harrison Bader brings rhythm to the Phillies. His cousin, Chris Baio, does the same as the bassist for Vampire Weekend.

Harrison Bader brought his rock star looks to the Phillies. His cousin, Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio, is a real rock star. And the two are fans of one another.

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 6d

This is why you’re both my kind of people

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 6d

I think it definitely has to be at least two

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 6d

How many croissants counts as a meal

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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 11d

Music plug: we hosted the pre-teen punk band Owl Talons at the west philly porchfest last summer, and their first album is out: Ruined Future. 14 tracks in 28 minutes, nobody over 12 years old. open.spotify.com/album/1CPS9C...

Ruined Future

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 16d

The youth must know the backward fleece robe ways

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 17d

Oh me? Up googling if they make snuggies for babies wyd

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 19d

I’m the big meatball now :) 🍝

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 19d

Weird thing to finally post about late night Friday but guess what I went from Deputy Food Editor to Food Editor @inquirer.com

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 20d

always a good call

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 21d

The worst kept secret in Philly is the best time to get a hard-to-get restaurant reservation is during an Eagles game. You're welcome

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 21d

that's a very real victory

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21d

This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

bidoun.org

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Aug 29

God willing, go birds

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Aug 29

Saw both the Go Birds Uber and a Benjamin Franklin impersonator in 24 hours, truly the most auspicious Philly signs

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Aug 12

Having both of us back at work is an unending series of chaotic situations and I am constantly covered in spit up but on the other hand the baby Halloween costumes are on sale now

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Aug 4

You might think the most dangerous game refers to hunting humans but it is actually putting a baby on your shoulders right after they eat and hoping they don’t vomit directly on your face (I lost)

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s my personal sickness that my favorite night of vacation is my turn to cook for the group

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Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · Jul 25

In this cooking vs. ordering takeout debacle I want to say that cooking is demanding of time, energy and finances.

I absolutely understand cooking is a no go for lots of people.

If you are looking for ways to make cooking accessible to you, @margareteby.bsky.social has a cookbook for you.

You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible|Hardcover

One of the Washington Post’s Best Cookbooks of 2024“It is one of the most generous cookbooks I have ever read. It’s revolutionary; it’s a relief.”—Washington PostA ...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 23

this plum torte rules, not sure how much of a dent it'll put in your stash but wildly delicious use of plums smittenkitchen.com/2013/10/purp...

purple plum torte

Marian Burros’s plum torte is a cult classic in which a mass of plums are coated with cinnamon sugar and baked into a pancake-like batter, where they melt into pie-like pockets and you defini…

smittenkitchen.com

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 21

Grab that chicken kale caesar sandwich at liberty kitchen or the chicken cutlet at Farina da Vita!

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 20

People always act like they’d know Clark Kent was Superman but Tony Hawk is out here flying under the radar every day

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 18

Published one (1) blog about a coffee drink that is helping me through early parenthood and received four (4) unsolicited emails about how I shouldn’t be drinking caffeine while breastfeeding. Love 2 be a woman on the internet!!!!

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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 18

Honestly when I hit "ethnic foods" I was like well that's an uh-oh from me dog

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · Jul 17

Labubus are the Furbies of now

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