Last week was a good week in tips, so I decided to treat myself to something from the fancy food store next door - the place with barrels of balsamic vinegar lined up along the walls, and helpful clerks who leap at the chance to let you try as many as you want ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Or a happy Sunday for non-Christmas-celebrators ( Read more... )

Lenore Newman’s Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey suffers from the same problem as Kelsey Osgood’s How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia: both books have theses that undermine their own existences. How to Disappear Completely is an eating disorder memoir that hypothesizes that eating disorder memoirs actually help ( Read more... )

There's an artisanal cooking store next to one of the Starbucks where I work (I'm alternating between two now. They just can't get enough of me), and as I got to work a bit early today, I decided to drop by. Just to look around, you know, not to buy anything ( Read more... )

We had some extra heavy cream left over, so I decided to try a new scone recipe - or rather an old scone recipe; my aunt's cream scone recipe, in fact. No butter, just flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and heavy cream, and you get tall and fluffy scones ( Read more... )

It's snoooooooowing! Or rather, it was snowing earlier, and if there is one thing better than sitting inside toasty warm watching the snow fall outside the window, it is arriving home after a long drive and then being inside toasty warm watching the snow that you are no longer driving through fall ( Read more... )

I’d like to be able to whole-heartedly recommend Rob Dunn’s Never Out of Season: Why Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future, because I think it’s got an important and thought-provoking message; certainly in my post-apocalyptic imaginings I had not spent much time contemplating the possibility of a vast ( Read more... )

Here are the Christmas cookies that I made for holiday launch:


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I usually write my Wednesday Reading Meme out ahead, as I finish things, but I didn't this week and after the election results I don't have the heart for it; it seems rather pointless ( Read more... )

Today was a mixed day for Reeses. In the morning I went to Dunkin Donuts, intending to get one of their Reeses doughnuts which were amaaaaaaazing, filled with peanut butter with sweet chocolate glaze on top, all in a soft yeast doughnut - but, as the past tense has no doubt warned you, they seem to have been discontinued. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ( Read more... )