January 2005

Iraqi Recipes

by zora on January 28, 2005

Here’s an Iraqi woman posting basic recipes. Scroll down to the post about sumac. Hilarious…if it weren’t for the thought that there really is some paranoid idiot out there who thinks that and will write a crazy email about it without doing any real research. Sigh.

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Wine talk

by zora on January 26, 2005

I’m in the not-so-great-but-trying wine store near my house, looking in vain for the $6 Hungarian pinot grigio that seems to have now vanished, and one of the employees is counseling a woman on her wine choice.

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News from abroad

by zora on January 23, 2005

I was going to say I’ve had a lack of recent food adventures because I was thinking of the gross cheese sandwich with that Italian mushroom pesto and a small handful of my roommate’s five-cheez Italiano blend dairy product (sorry, Aaron, it wasn’t much), but then I also remembered the fabulously heartwarming return-to-NYC fried-chicken feast that Tamara prepared to mark my return from exile in the sun country.

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Old news

by zora on January 7, 2005

So it’s come to this: Last night I cruised my neighborhood very slowly with my computer on, clicking “Refresh wireless networks” in front of the nicer houses (i.e., _not_ the one gutted in the meth lab fire a couple years ago).

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