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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley

Writer, editor. Erstwhile Philly museum curator and Southern Foodways Alliance board member, James Beard finalist. Typos no extra charge. IG: rowleywrites

Joined September 2009
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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley
5 Jul 2023
There were a few false starts on Twitter alternates. I bided time until it felt like there was something with legs. This is promising. Same old handle, just at a new home. Here’s where you can find me:
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Began the night at Bee’s Knees in #kyoto with a round from the menu, then a round off-menu. Wound it down with yakitori and kushikatsu at Akiyoshi Kawaramachi. And a cold mug of whisky highball. Or two.
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Outstanding. Well done, @pelliclemag
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Male friendship: I’ve been good friends with a few guys for 35-45 years. I swear on my life I have no idea how many children they have between them. In total, more than two, probably fewer than ten.
Charlie @CharlieFreyre
25 Oct 2024
Male friendships: The other guy in this ad is my best friend. We grew up together, he officiated my wedding, we talk on the phone 1-2 times a week. Not once did it come up at any point he did a commercial with Simu Liu. Seeing this post while scrolling is how I found out.
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A good 10-12 seconds of walking away in silence passed in the parking lot before I uttered a word.
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Firing my agent was an amicable, cordial parting of ways. Divergent interests. Best of luck and all that. But the deciding factor for me was that no one at the agency had bothered to follow me on any platform. Agents: follow your clients. It is the literal least you can do.
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Although I don’t post much here any longer, I’m a lot more active on IG where I’m rowleywrites. Food, bee suits, drinks, articles, books.
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Knödel are a longtime interest of mine. I own several German and Austrian books devoted to the subject. While I am slavering over the new Knödelreich from @katha_esskultur et al, €30 for the ebook is *insane* (and under not authors’ control). Time to order the hardback.
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*not under authors’ control, but still: an outrageous sum for an epub. Buy the physical book at nearly the same price.
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Just a few of the character actors who will always be more famous to me than any YouTube star.
merritt k (not really here anymore)
 @merrittk
17 Oct 2024
Any random guy that I saw in a sitcom in the 90s even if it was just a bit part will always be more famous to me than the most famous YouTuber
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Rounded the corner and went weak in the knees as I walked into a wall of smoked pork sausage aroma. Spending a hot minute in my old stomping grounds, Philadelphia. My god, this city had good food. #kielbasa
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*Has. This city HAS good food. Nothing bad has happened to the Philadelphia food scene. That was just a typo.
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Crazy, huh?
Pete Savin @pete_savin
5 Oct 2024
I’m always amazed at the detailed knowledge to be had in a single volume of a book.
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Watching Werner Herzog’s 2005 film ‘Grizzly Man.’ TL;DR — yes. Yes, he could.
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Reading on Mexican cuisine this morning. This char-grilled tuétano/marrowbone from the book Punto MX from @RobertoPuntoMX et al is a stunner. Published 2018 by @Montagud1906, Barcelona. 440 pages, about 2.5 kilos, ES/EN. A fat book, somewhat pricey, worth every penny.
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This thing is growing out back. I don’t know what it’s called. Google suggests Alocasia odora, but I’m not 100% sold on that ID. Can any plant aficionados, botanists, or gardeners tell me for sure what this elephant ear-looking monstrosity is?
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For no particular reason, here’s an old post on gedörrtes Hundefleisch, a Swiss recipe for cured, pressed dog meat, from Calvin Schwabe’s 1979 book, Unmentionable Cuisine: matthew-rowley.blogspot.com/…
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We had bottle openers, pull tabs, and pop tops through my teens early 20s. Also used: belt buckles, knives, lighters. Beer country. I’ve seen boys open bottles of wine with heels of shoes and a cordless drill. Weren’t a lot of corkscrews around the scene. Or wine that needed them
Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys
13 Sep 2024
Only 27% of youngsters own a corkscrew, apparently. theguardian.com/business/art… I'm not sure it was that different when I was in my teens/ 20s. There would often be a panicked hunt to find one at house parties.
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Minored in Latin & biology. Bachelor degs anthropology & sociology. Grad school: anthropology & historic/museum admin. Postgrad: Wharton School. Those ways of learning have been central in making me a better writer. But a few taught me to think as expansively as James Burke:
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Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you.
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