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Minnie Pants

I have tried.  I really have. I have wanted to stick with kitchen goods on this page. I certainly have enough "Favorite Things" to write about something new every day for a year.  But these...

London recommendations

When I moved to London in 2005 for what was supposed to be a 2-year assignment I remember my boss telling me that I may never come back.  I scoffed at the idea.  Leave New York? PUH-lease.  It took me 25 years to get there...

Sweet Potato Gratin

A few days ago I reorganized my cookbook shelves. With two children already hatched and one to go this is now the kind of activity that brings me tremendous joy. I can't believe I once danced on the bar at Coyote Ugly and now I...

Walnut and Blueberry Granola

We're new at this you and me. We don't even know each others full names yet.  You don't yet know what magazines I subscribe to (Bon Appetit, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Cooks Illustrated and I buy Dwell at the grocery store).  You don't know my...

Coconut, Ginger, Vanilla Tapioca

This is how it happens: It was Tuesday afternoon and I was getting ready for Romney Ride, the New Orleans version of Soul Cycle, trying desperately to stay on task and on time when I heard it on the radio.   One word.   Out of context. Tapioca. I...

Ginger Citrus Mocktail

It is official:  I have hit the "fat or pregnant" stage with baby number 3.  Due in February, 3BM as s/he is affectionately known is little more at the moment than 10lbs (cough)  of extra weight around the waist and boobs.  Not happy about the first...

Key Lime Pie

This is the story of a Key Lime Tree.  One that would be nurtured and loved and watered and chatted to...

Ye Olde Cooks Illustrated

  Chrisopher Kimball wakes up every morning in red plaid flannel PJs, drinks a cup of steaming coffee in a blue enamel coffee mug and walks outside in his lined moccasin slippers to tap his maple tree for syrup before wandering back in and warming his...

Art of French Baking

When my husband and I got married we created two "off limit" areas. I promised to never complain about his purchases of ski gear and he promised to never complain about my purchases of kitchen gear. He thought he had won by a longshot until...

Breville Juicer

Do you know what Whole Foods charges for a bottle of unpasteurized juice?  $11.99.  That’s ELEVEN DOLLARS AND NINETY NINE CENTS my friends! Now, I’m not begrudging them the need to make money so the store can pay the electricity bill, or the juice making...

Wusthof Classic Knives

    Purchasing knives can cause a ton of confusion. Just what makes some knives more expensive than others? Why are some hundreds of dollars and some only a tenner? There are a ton of things that go into that discussion: tang, spine, degree of blade, the...

Corksicle

This is one of those things that could go either way.  Is it clutter? It is an unnecessary tchotchke? (I lived in NYC long enough to be able to use that word). I've thought long and hard about it and I don't think so. I think The...