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The 12 Essential Kitchen Tools for Beginners, According to Cooking Instructors

Specifically of the way in which she, as someone wary of emotional vulnerability yet full of affection (classic Boomer combo), decided to make Austrian pork schnitzel her love language — and the meat tenderizer her translator.

The 12 Essential Kitchen Tools for Beginners, According to Cooking Instructors

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Specifically of the way in which she, as someone wary of emotional vulnerability yet full of affection (classic Boomer combo), decided to make Austrian pork schnitzel her love language — and the meat...

Every time I see a meat tenderizer, I think of my mother.

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Specifically of the way in which she, as someone wary of emotional vulnerability yet full of affection (classic Boomer combo), decided to make Austrian pork schnitzel her love language — and the meat tenderizer her translator. Every time I see a meat tenderizer, I think of my mother.

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Every time I see a meat tenderizer, I think of my mother.

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