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Mitch Smith is a Chicago-based national correspondent for The Times covering the Midwest and Great Plains

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Ernesto Londoño is a Times reporter based in Minnesota covering news in the Midwest and drug use and counternarcotics policy

Julie Bosman contributed reporting

A batch of anchovy-enhanced greens can be prepped ahead of time and then reheated if you are in a rush.

Use jam says Wells.

You can use whatever toppings you have on hand from brown sugar and butter to fresh berries.

The dish is still tasty with spinach or any kind of leafy green that will complement the eggs.

Soak oats overnight with a few dollops of yogurt because it adds two minutes of prep time and reduces cooking time in the morning.

Wells garnishes dishes at Betsy with fermented hot sauces or kimchi and frequently elevates plain oatmeal at home by lightly fermenting the oats.

Poems From an Attic does not greatly extend understanding of Murdoch

He considers how his wife would have reacted

These are formal workings out of impulses appetites and intense feelings

Murdoch said poets can express much more than novelists

The poem "St James's Park" reads like the everyday sketches of Frank O'Hara

Before that was an editor at the Book Review for a decade

Dwight Garner has been a book critic for The Times since 2008

Murdoch once wrote the best thing about being God would be making the heads

The author enjoyed the poem "Oxford to Paddington" written on a train and dedicated to Bayley

Knowledge of Murdoch's life helps