I am sitting here, in a friend’s apartment in Berlin with snow falling outside and fireworks going off, thinking of an appropriate way to sum up the past year. It was hard, it was a struggle, it was difficult and heartbreaking on so many levels for so many different people. In a year of hardship [...]
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I first made this cookies over ten years ago and I have made them every Christmas since. I usually create a sort of gingerbread UN, with gingerbread men from all around the world: a Scottish guy with a kilt, a Japanese woman wearing an elaborately decorated kimono, a French man with a striped shirt and [...]
As I sit here eating barley soup I would like to focus on what I’m not doing: I am not writing a research paper I am not cobbling together a portfolio I am not getting high on Sharpie fumes while making a picture book I am not even lesson planning I am just sitting here [...]
“the pure luxury of a cloudless sky, designed not to please the flesh but solely to please the eye;”- Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Let me tell you a story: Once there was this girl who really liked this boy so she thought she’d make him bread pudding. Not just any bread pudding, but a chai bread pudding, where the milk is steeped with spices and tea and the final dish is rich, flavorful and complex. She looked through [...]
I may be a nerd, but I love this: “The metaphor of the cookbook was long the pet metaphor of the conservative political philosopher Michael Oakeshott in his assault on the futility of thinking that something learned by rote was as good as what was learned by ritual. Oakeshott’s much repeated point was that one [...]