Even when I’m not in Spain, I love it. Sunday Night Dinner was celebrating (loosely and late) Columbus Day with Spanish food, and I’d worked up a varied menu, but really, I was just looking for an excuse to buy a ham. Several years ago, some friends of mine got married in Spain, and at [...]
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I know, the signs say it’s prohibited to ride your bike across the bridge. So then why do they put those little ramps on the stairs? But wait, they put them on the _wrong side_–at least it’s the wrong side if you’re me, trying to lug your bike up the stairs. I guess if you’re [...]
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So this woman is selling off the contents of this hundred-year-old house, plus assorted other vintage goodness. I just spent hooouuurs roaming around picking up knickknacks and putting them down, holding up too-small vintage dresses in the mirror, trying on feather-trimmed hats and so on. Very absorbing. We came away with a groovy two-tone green [...]
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Thought-provoking essay on eGullet about the best music to cook by, followed by spirited discussion, and a nod to this bizarre YouTube concoction. Reminded me and Tamara cranking the Zep recently, then pouring ourselves glasses of Lillet, and getting down to work. But this was under the gaze of a video camera, so then, for [...]
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