Once upon a time, I worked in an office and made money. It’s true, it happened. One day, a swarm of consultants descended upon us and made us take the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator test. When we got the results, (I’m an INTP) I was described as a “mad-scientist”, often distracted with many projects going at [...]
I meant to post this for Gourmet Unbound‘s February round up but somehow between taxes, and school, and teaching, February 1st came and went without my even realizing it. While in Berlin I became addicted to something known as glühwein, which means “glow wine,” an appropriate name considering the radiant effect it can have on [...]
Today we had a snow day in New York. Public schools were closed, which means that I didn’t have to get up at 6:45 this morning. Even though the snow is still falling outside I think everything will return to normal tomorrow and by 8:30 am I’ll be back in the classroom with 25 five-year-olds [...]
Last year, after I whined about the price of nuts in New York, my mom said she’d see if she could get me some nuts wholesale through one of her suppliers (if you didn’t know, she has a shop in Los Angeles). A month or so later, a guy comes by and delivers a 25-pound [...]
When I cook, I try to use mostly seasonal, local ingredients. However, there are times, when say I’ve just come back from a trip where I’ve been eating mostly sausage and potatoes, when all I want to eat is the vegetable soup that my mom used to make from a recipe that came from Weight [...]
I feel that I’ve been everywhere in the past month or so, visiting friends and family in Los Angeles, Berlin, Stockholm and Paris. While it was nice to be away, and to see new places, it feels really good to be home again. I spent the first few days just lazing around the house, cleaning, [...]
Hallo from Berlin! If I’m a little absent from these here parts it’s because I’m putting on twenty five layers and enjoying the freezing cold temperatures while trudging through the city. Thankfully there’s gluhwein (a hot mulled wine) to be had, which warms you up for 3 euros or less, if only New York had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]