I have made fried honey-and-red wine sauce chikcen and drunk two glasses of Reisling. Did not have time to have lunch. Can't wait for four glasses of wine on an empty stomach (not counting bits of crispy chicke skin I snarfed from the pan.) We have more food lurking in the fridge, and am also making leg of lamb with rosemary and curry powder and ( Read more... )

For everyone who's celebrating, Eid Mubarak ( Read more... )

Here, have a totally inappropriate icon ( Read more... )

Journalist and non-observant Jew A. J. Jacobs, needing a subject for his next book and interested in the roots of his heritage, decides to spend a year attempting to follow the Bible literally. Like everyone who decides to spend a year doing some extreme thing and write a book about it, as far as I can tell, he is well-to-do and living in a swank ( Read more... )

Yesterday I observed Yom Kippur for the first time, with a (slightly fudged via a little black coffee) fast and six hours in the temple ( Read more... )