October 2005

Cooking with The Headhunter

by zora on October 31, 2005

A couple entries back, when I slagged off those Dream Dinners people, this woman left a comment, backing up my accusation that DD customers were just freakin’ wimps. She’s a single mom with three kids and two jobs, she says, and she manages to cook dinner all the time, for god’s sake. So I click [...]

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ekathimerini.com: Cheesy win pleases Greeks

by zora on October 30, 2005

It’s official: Feta is Greek. (So is Macedonia, FYI. And some parts of Turkey, and Cyprus, but let’s not get into that.) No more Danish knockoffs. Full details here.

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Krispy Juniors

by zora on October 28, 2005

“Holy crap!” is not really the polite way to greet a coworker, especially one I haven’t seen in months, early in the morning. But she had this little packet of doughnuts bearing the distinctive Krispy Kreme font. After my eyes stopped bugging out of my head at this wondrous baked good before me, she explained [...]

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Crass Commercialism

by zora on October 27, 2005

Check out the links to my books at right, kiddies. If you click on those links and buy ‘em, Amazon will send me 3 cents! If you search for things via the Amazon search box over there, and then buy them, I might get a check for even more cents! It seems a little tacky, [...]

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