September 2005

Solar Cooking–Duly Reported

by zora on September 29, 2005

I’ve been meaning to write my What I Did at Burning Man report for weeks, but have been kind of uninspired, because our solar-cooking results were kind of uninspiring. Which is a major turnaround from the beginning of the project–when Jonathan Reynolds’s article on solar cooking in the New York Times magazine singlehandedly inspired me [...]

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Washed in the Water/Kids Say the Darnedest Things

by zora on September 29, 2005

Karl finally compiled his 8,000 photos from our summer trip. The key image, of me in the teeter-tottery, baby-size baptismal font, is here. Peter and I were just in Amsterdam for a wedding of our friends Ta-MAR-a (not TAM-ara, Queen of Astoria) and John, and we were walking toward the church. Peter’s 4-year-old nephew, Finn, [...]

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Boo, Albuquerque Alibi

by zora on September 26, 2005

Man, just about the time I was penning my NM guidebook and adding a great big shout-out to Gwyneth Doland, food editor at Albuquerque’s actually-really-good alterna-weekly, it turns out she was getting fired! Who would’ve guessed that the column that made me laugh hardest most recently — the one that began “I think buying bottled [...]

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Tapas and Couscous (and more)

by zora on September 14, 2005

AV, who supplied the great photos of the lamb being gutted for Eid in Morocco, is back in Moorish lands and maintaining a blog. Who am I to judge, but I suspect it might be one of those grad-school dissertation-procrastination tools. Anyway, expect good food tidbits and attention to detail: Here’s the link. What else? [...]

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