So I was trying to see the NYT editorial Sam Harris wrote lamenting the appointment of Francis Collins to be the director of the National Institutes of Health, but it was behind a NYT registration wall. Bored for the moment, I recalled reading an article by Harris at some point in the past that had led me to conclude that he was a whacko, particularly on the subject of Islam. I decided for the moment to forgo Bug Me Not, and see if I could find what had bothered me previously.

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This is a double review, featuring two cheeses that ended up going into a lasagna I made recently.

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On the way back from the Art Fair this month, we decided to try something really unique (we hoped) on State Street for lunch, so we went to Chautara, one of two Nepalese/Himalayan restaurants set on that pedestrian corridor (as it turns out, the other one, Himal Chuli, is owned by the same people).

Unfortunately, Chautara was a massive let-down, in almost every conceivable way.

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