Last night at one of my freelance jobs, a woman I work with was musing on the current financial mess: “I figure, my family lived through the Depression. It wasn’t pretty–but they survived.” Survival is key. But I worry that people today don’t have the same survival skills they did back in the 1930s. I [...]
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A while ago, we had a Code Red in the house: We ran out of butter. Holy crap, I’m shivering with fear again right now. No–it’s over. It was all just a bad dream. We solved that butter problem.
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Our friend Katie had a significant birthday, which called for dinner. I haven’t been cooking much recently, at least not in a big way. It was very soothing to go through my cookbooks, make my lists, do all the mental tinkering, get the shopping done and get down to business. First, though, the decks had [...]
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A little while back, I mentioned the blog New York Knife & Fork. My suspicions about its overall uselessness were confirmed when she reviewed the joint right around the corner from my house, a Bosnian restaurant called Pasha. Call me old-fashioned, but I think that a restaurant reviewer (especially a self-proclaimed one) should adhere to [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
*Co-author of cookbook Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party
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