Just arrived in Cancun today. Halloween seems to have swept Mexico–a crowd of kids just came by the ice cream shop in Isla Mujeres where I’m using the internet. They were all dressed up as ghosts and witches and pumpkins and chanting ‘Que-re-mos HALL-o-ween!’ Well, the ice cream shop proprietor didn’t have any HALL-o-ween to [...]
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The Wayward Chef just turned me on to this brilliant way of cooking eggs: Heat up a little olive oil in a nonstick pan, slide in a couple of eggs, and then almost immediately douse them in a quarter-cup of lemon juice and crumbled-up dried mint. Cover and simmer a few minutes, et voila–you have [...]
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Thoughtful Tal, who bought me the bacon Band-Aids (ooh, I used one! It made my whole finger look like an open wound from far away, but up close it was cool), just sent me an email with this subject heading, and this link: Bacon Exotic Candy Bar. Fascinating. I had the most delicious chocolate chess [...]
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I am chronically late to the party. Telling Fergus Henderson how much I adore him is like saying, “Dang, that OutKast makes me want to shake it!” or “Sex and the City–so true, sister!” or even “The Internet! What a genius invention!” FH has been on my radar since I worked at Prune in…2002?!…and of [...]
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