'Tis the season
I’m in full-on holiday mode these days. If it’s not writing about cookies for the Food Network and Cooking Channel blogs (today it’s macaroons–yay, Hannukah!–and pecan bourbon balls), it’s pondering upcoming festive dinners–Christmas, New Year’s, random dinner parties. You name it, I’m obsessing over the menu for it. It’s cold and rainy outside, but in [...]
A propos of nothing but the NYPL and a good laugh
This is totally not food or EFB-related, but it’s still cracking me up several days later, so I can’t resist posting this video made in support of the New York Public Library, which is being threatened with $37 million dollars in cuts. The NYPL happens to be very close to my heart as both a [...]
Friday Food Writers: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron’s writing on food—well, Norah Ephron’s writing on anything, really, but since this is Friday Food Writers…—is hilarious. I’m not sure if it’s the slight touch of neurotic energy or the manic pacing or the sense that if you went to a dinner party at her house the best place to be would be [...]
Friday Food Writers: Frank O'Hara (redux)
Frank O’Hara made an appearance in Friday Food Writers last June, but somehow today as I sit at my desk and spring is busting out all over New York and people are grabbing sandwiches and iced coffee and lemonade and cookies and all manner of things to eat outside in the sunshine, I can’t think [...]
Friday Food Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m in a sort of zany mood, so I’m looking beyond the usual suspects for today’s post. And who zanier, really, than Fitzgerald (at least in his Zelda/speakeasies/jazz age moments)? The below is taken from The Crack-Up, one of my absolute favorite books. First published in 1945, it’s a collection of fragments and miscellany and [...]
Friday Food Writers: Mary Cantwell
Yes, it’s the return of Friday Food Writers! I’m out in California, native land of The German Professor (and beloved travel destination of The Cheese Hater, who seems to be a natural-born Californian in spite of having actually been born in the same New York City hospital as his mother….). I try not to bring [...]
