Katrina Dutt
Highway 70
The golden hills slope smoothly like the lithe lines of a hairless cat’s body. No sagebrush dot this form. The shadows rest in the nooks...
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KATRINA DUTT
Katrina Dutt
Mar 243 min read
Katrina's Half-Baked Hot Cakes: Walking Makes Us More Human
Today, I’m sitting in a cafe by a window watching the people pass. It’s a steady stream through the long paseo that is interspersed with...
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Katrina Dutt
Mar 123 min read
Katrina's Half-Baked Hot Cakes: Recycling Propaganda is Making the Climate Change Crisis Worse
Recycle, Recycle, Recycle! How many times have you heard this familiar refrain? I’ve heard it since I was a kid and continue to see it...
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Katrina Dutt
Jan 242 min read
Sunny Sunday
Pablo tunes his guitar, each smooth string pluck interspersed with a strike of the church’s bell. Noon on a sunny day in January spent...
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Katrina Dutt
Oct 21, 20232 min read
They're Hedonists Here
The joys of coffee in a small town in Northern Spain
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Katrina Dutt
Sep 5, 20233 min read
Snobby and her Little Sister
This is the third time in the last week that I’ve been reprimanded by my little sister for not partaking in free samples. For some...
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Katrina Dutt
Jul 2, 20232 min read
Party in a Pueblo
It took three chomps to work my way through the bread, each bite starting with a crunch that sent a spray of crackled crust onto the...
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Katrina Dutt
Jul 2, 20232 min read
Alive
We swam in the river this afternoon, or maybe I should say that we became part of the river for an hour. We were prodded to the cold...
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Katrina Dutt
Jul 2, 20232 min read
Green
I watch as sunlight spotlights a field on the other side of the small valley, turning it from grass and trees to liquid delight. If I...
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Katrina Dutt
Apr 30, 20232 min read
In Praise of the Churro
Reflections on living in Spain and rationalizing eating churros
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Katrina Dutt
Mar 5, 20233 min read
Pueblo Life
This Saturday, we saw a part of Andalucía that most tourists don’t get to see thanks to Paco, a colleague of my partner who offered to...
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Katrina Dutt
Jan 5, 20232 min read
Dripping with Drama
The lights dim, the audience slowly quiets, and then three men dressed in black take the stage. A talented guitarist, practically a kid...
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Katrina Dutt
Dec 16, 20223 min read
To my generation, Gen Z:
We are distracted so much of the time. How can we slow down to appreciate those things that bring us true joy, purpose, and beauty? We...
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Katrina Dutt
Dec 16, 20221 min read
Cajeta, my darling
I sit, the sugar burning the insides of my mouth. The sharpness of the sweetness surprises me. We often ignore how sweet sugar is....
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Katrina Dutt
Nov 25, 20222 min read
A Quest for Risotto
I like the idea of risotto so much more than I like the taste of it. In fact, the thing that makes it so risotto-y (all that starch) is...
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Katrina Dutt
Nov 11, 20222 min read
Bazaars 'n Stuff
I felt like I was walking through the innards of Amazon, surrounded on all sides by stuff. Clothing, kitchenware, bedding, shoes,...
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Katrina Dutt
Oct 19, 20222 min read
A Pot of Home
Once settled in a place with a kitchen, it hardly takes long for me to make a pot of beans. I like beans because they are meant to be...
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Katrina Dutt
Oct 9, 20221 min read
Crumbs and Fireworks
Migas: a dish I could't figure out. A tapa made of corn? flour? couscous? It turns out to be made of bread crumbs (migas means "crumbs"...
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Katrina Dutt
Dec 20, 20217 min read
Food Identities: How to Find Yourself in Your Food
Food is a mirror. It reflects our values, our traditions, and the narratives we construct about ourselves and our society. I want to see...
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Katrina Dutt
Dec 1, 20212 min read
blue
It feels like I've never seen this much blue sky After months of stone and gray blocking my vision, an almost unbounded sky— the winter...
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