America Pastime In Season /  by Paul Druecke

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–I pick up a flattened cup, soiled seasonal careless unwanted
another minute mark time stamped into muscle fat steaming
bevs fizzy liquids consumed by others inside me, I pose, relate
litter clock face

trash ticktocks ‘round the block, Dear, you are its trophy

-from Instagram post Februrary 16, 2001

Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 13 Crowded Soup ∞ now streaming /  by Paul Druecke

We begin 2021 with a soup course—and lots of it. Our motto is always staged, never rehearsed.

Stellar lineup of guests: Kiki Anderson & Didier Leplae, Scott Barton, Stacy & Simone Blint, Sarah Buccheri & Emir Çakaroz, Peter & George Burzynski, Natalie Kuehl & Maggie Tews, Le’Andra LeSeur, and Ariana Vaeth. Feature artist: Theo Merriweather. Thanks to our guests and to you for joining us! We hope you’ll send us a note, shout out MK, and enjoy. Bon apetit ~

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The Expanding Cast of Milwaukee Kitchen /  by Paul Druecke

Streaming episodes available on Youtube

Milwaukee Kitchen Guest List
Episode One, When it Rains it Pours
Matthew Lackie
Rachel Stenman
Flora Coker
Didier Leplae (Host)

Episode Two, Spice Trade
Renato Umali (Guest Artist)
Anika Wilson
Laj Waghray
Flora Coker
Sarah Buccheri and baby Vince Çakaroz
Didier Leplae (Host)

Episode 03, Lies, Lies, Lies
Emir Çakaroz
Dominic Fendt and Shizuki Ide
Ceclia Condit
Isabel Beeman
Flora Coker
Didier Leplae (Host)

Episode 04, Perfect Amount of Salt
Tyanna Buie
Chuck Stebelton (Guest Artist)
Jeanne Hammes
Ariana Vaeth
Flora Coker
Didier Leplae (Host)

Special Episode, I Don’t Mind Sour
Scott Barton (Guest Cook)
Portia Cobb (Guest Cook)
Didier Leplae (Host)

Episode 05, Kinnikinnick and Gado Gado
Flora Coker
Albertus Joni and Dominic Fendt
Ariana Vaeth
Margaret Noodin (Guest Artist)
and Michael Zimmerman Jr.
Didier Leplae (Host)

S2, Episode 06, Salad Days
Christina Ward (Guest Cook)
Mailman Mike (Mike Boothe)
Casey Seymour (Guest Artist)
Flora Coker
Marcie Hoffman
Didier Leplae (Host)

S2, Ep 07, Bittersweet Symphony
LaNia Sproles
Flora Coker (Guest Artist)
Ariana Vaeth
Anika Wilson
Didier Leplae (Host)

S2, Episode 08, Great Escape (Two Part Ep)
Flora Coker
Rose Balistreri
Ariana Vaeth
Jenny Gropp and Laura Soloman
Scott Barton
Margaret Noodin
Didier Leplae (Picnic Host)

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S3, Episode 12, Dream Team
Portia Cobb
Sarah Aziz, Adam Farcus, and Benny
Brian Holoubeck
LaNia Sproles, Molly Hassler, and Peach
Nirmal Raja
Selina Trepp (Guest Artist)

Episode 13 (In process)
Le’Andra Leseur
Scott Barton
Natalie Kuehn
Emir Cacaroz and Sara Buccheri
Stacy Blint and Simone Blint
Didier Leplae and Kiki Anderson
Peter Burzynski (Polonez Restaurant)
Theo Merriweather (Guest Artist)

Streaming episodes available on Youtube

S2, Episode 09, Sweet Cheese and Applesauce
Ariana Vaeth (Guest Host)
Flora Coker
Open Kitchen (Alyx Christenson and Rudy Medina, Guest Cooks)
Bethany Price (Guest Artist)
Anne Haskell and Jámal Currie

S2, Episode 10, Old School Vibrations
Flora Coker
Jámal Currie
Anika Wilson
Maeve (Guest Artist), Melissa, Mike Paré
Paul Druecke (Guest Host)

S3, Episode 11, Kitchen Sync (Two Part Ep)
Jámal Currie
Christiane Grauert and Santiago Cucullu
Sonia Simões
Ariana Vaeth, Caelin Henkhaus, Audrey Burns
Kiki Anderson and Didier Leplae
Fatima Laster, Ras Ammar Nsoroma
Thomas Hellstrom
Laj Whagray
Cecelia Condit (Guest Artist)

Shorthand @ Woodland Pattern Book Center /  by Paul Druecke

Could brevity be of use to you in the new and improved year? It’s an honor to be leading a virtual workshop at Woodland Pattern starting January 10th.

Shorthand
January 10, 17, and 24
Virtual Workshop coordinated by Woodland Pattern Bookcenter
A few compact lines can have the breadth of a novel. Though often decried as the end of literature, today’s trends toward terse messaging, burgeoning palettes of emojis, shrinking attention spans fueled by distracting handheld computers can all be productive points of reference for understanding and capturing the essence of time and place.

During the workshop we will survey inspiring and infamous examples of spare, highly-concentrated writing that achieve maximum effect with minimum material. For example, Jenny Holzer’s prescient aphorism, “Abuse of power comes as no surprise,” has a nuanced tone that both confronts and commiserates with the reader. We will look to Ms. Holzer, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Mary Oliver, Ron Padgett, Aram Saroyan, Audre Lorde, and Morgan Parker as we mine contemporary media landscapes and/or our phones for inspiration. Through sketches, experiments in brevity, and tweet-length searching, we will explore what can be left out as we create micro-masterpieces for the times.

Milwaukee Kitchen via Atlanta /  by Paul Druecke

It’s nice to get a shout out from The Art of Everyone and Adam Robinson, the brilliant energy behind Publishing Genius. Stay tuned, looks like we have some behind-the-scenes interviews with guest on the way . . .

Coming soon, look out for our interview with guests from Milwaukee KitchenComing soon, look out for our interview with guests from Milwaukee Kitchen, a different kind of cooking show that artfully showcases food and community in Milwaukee, WI. The s…

Coming soon, look out for our interview with guests from Milwaukee KitchenComing soon, look out for our interview with guests from Milwaukee Kitchen, a different kind of cooking show that artfully showcases food and community in Milwaukee, WI. The show’s motto is always staged, never rehearsed.always staged, never rehearsed.

America Pastime, Day 68, Warp and Woof /  by Paul Druecke

-Dear Dear, I share the afternoon with Dutch Irish Fusion Creamy et. al. Zack Pick whets the appetite, handwritten, at the base of a coffin-sized slab of Basalt that is 1.1 billion years old puff on that

-we have so little time, together

-Warp and Woof—trash sighting that speaks to structure time luck cotton comfort mega omega

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