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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 06/07/2026 4:52:08 AM PDT by nikos1121

TMUA TS SUA ABFSAMSJ QUAASJD LUJ CSDD AMUK AMS LUIA AMUA TS SUA ABFSAMSJ. —DUQNK KBDJUA


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1 posted on 06/07/2026 4:52:08 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Who?


2 posted on 06/07/2026 4:55:09 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...
From The Arkansas Gazette 4 minutes good 3 minutes excellent 2 minutes exceptional 90 seconds superior

Highlight for a Clue: D=S

3 posted on 06/07/2026 4:55:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
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4 posted on 06/07/2026 4:57:03 AM PDT by nikos1121
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5 posted on 06/07/2026 5:02:45 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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6 posted on 06/07/2026 5:07:08 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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7 posted on 06/07/2026 5:09:12 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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I’m not familiar with the author. The 4th letter of the first name is a vowel or semi-vowel.


8 posted on 06/07/2026 6:00:40 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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I’m not familiar with the author.

I have no idea why she was determined to be "quoteworthy". She's not.

And the quote is just an excuse made by someone who can't do their job well.

9 posted on 06/07/2026 6:32:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Here are some facts about the author of today’s quotation:

Sounds like she might be a flaming liberal, but I thought the quote was good, because it comes from world well known chef.

Persian born November 7, 1979) is an Iranian-American chef, TV host, food writer and podcaster.[2][3]

She is the author of the James Beard Award–winning, New York Times Bestselling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat and host of a Netflix docu-series of the same name.[4][2][5][6] From 2017 to 2021, she was a food columnist for The New York Times Magazine. She is also the co-host of the podcast Home Cooking. Her second book is titled Good Things.

Early life and education
She was born in San Diego, California. She was raised in University City, San Diego and attended La Jolla High School.[9] Her parents emigrated from Iran to the United States in 1976, fleeing state sanctioned persecution of Baháʼís.[10][11][12] When she was 18 months old, her older sister Samar died at the age of three from brain cancer.[13]

She grew up eating mostly Persian cuisine, and though she did not learn to cook until she was an adult, she has said that food was an important part of her childhood.[10][14]

She attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in English.[9]

Career
Early career
In 2000, as a sophomore in college, she ate dinner at Chez Panisse and immediately applied to work there as a busser.[9] She eventually worked her way up to the restaurant kitchen, becoming a cook and working with Alice Waters, who described her as “America’s next great cooking teacher.”[2][7][10]

After leaving Chez Panisse, She worked in Italy and then other Berkeley-area restaurants.[15] She worked as a sous-chef and took catering jobs before starting to teach private cooking classes in 2007.[16] She has said that she soon felt that a television show would be a more efficient way of teaching; however, it would be years before that would happen.[17]

She later worked with Michael Pollan, and was included in his book and the 2016 Netflix documentary television series Cooked as “the chef who taught Michael Pollan how to cook”.[18]

Salt Fat Acid Heat
Cookbook
Main article: Salt Fat Acid Heat (book)
Her 2017 cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton and including a foreword by Michael Pollan, explains the fundamental principles of good cooking which she defines by the four pillars named in the title. Instead of focusing on recipes alone, each pillar has its own chapter where Nosrat teaches readers through stories and wisdom gained from her years as a professional chef and cooking teacher. Rare for a cookbook, it teaches readers “from the ground up, how to be a good cook,”[19] functioning more as a textbook than a recipe collection.[16] The intention is that readers can improve their every day cooking with a fundamental understanding of food, improvising instead of needing to follow recipes.[19] Published in 2017, it has remained on best-selling lists for over three years.[12]

The book was named “Food Book of the Year” by The Times of London[20] and was a New York Times best seller.[21] The cookbook also won the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook,[22] was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and won the 2018 IACP Julia Child First Book Award.[23] In 2019, it was named one of the ten “Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far” by Helen Rosner in The New Yorker.[19]

There’s a lot more.


10 posted on 06/07/2026 6:54:10 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Thanks.


11 posted on 06/07/2026 8:28:46 AM PDT by manna
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To: Apparatchik

Excellent clue !!!

:-)


12 posted on 06/07/2026 11:18:37 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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Previous puzzle Saturday, June 6, 2026

Puzzle:

BASF RCIAB UJB RJH BAS QWEB JR TJUKWSEB. BASF RCIAB BJ SUX TJUKWSEB. BASF RCIAB BJ QCPSHGBS. —RHGUZQCU X. HJJESNSQB, GUUJWUTCUI X-XGF CUNGECJU

Clue: Change R to F

Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

THEY FIGHT NOT FOR THE LUST OF CONQUEST. THEY FIGHT TO END CONQUEST. THEY FIGHT TO LIBERATE. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, ANNOUNCING D-DAY INVASION
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13 posted on 06/07/2026 12:01:31 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Thorough planning and careful preparation is no substitute for wishful thinking. )
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...New York Times Bestselling cookbook...
...host of a Netflix docu-series...
...food columnist for The New York Times Magazine...
...attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in English...
...2016 Netflix documentary television series Cooked as “the chef who..."
...one of the ten “Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far”...in The New Yorker.

So, a typical leftist promotion package. And a quote that's an excuse made by someone who can't do their job well. Grandma would not agree with that quote.

14 posted on 06/07/2026 12:59:41 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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