October 2009

Sudoku

by zora on October 30, 2009

A comment on a recent Mark Bittman NYT blog post: “ I love to hear that I’m not the only one spending my commute home thinking about how to best use what’s sitting in the bin of my fridge. I’ve thought about that as a form of culinary sudoku.”

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I Survived Book Tour!

by zora on October 29, 2009

(More pics at Flickr.) First of all, Skank Ham. Met the auteur in St. Louis last night at our Left Bank Books event. I love the Internet. As I’ve mentioned in posts about guidebook research trips, it’s easy to get burned out on restaurant food, on hotels (no matter how glam) and on the glamour [...]

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Book Tour Ahoy!

by zora on October 18, 2009

It officially begins tomorrow. Not so auspiciously, I discovered yesterday that I’d jacked up my plane reservations, and was set to arrive at 12.23am, instead of 12.23pm. That’s a mistake I’ve never made before. (Doesn’t help that United’s SFO-PDX flights go at the exact same times, a.m. and p.m.) Anyway, fixed that. Will arrive in [...]

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Me and Tamara on Daily Candy

by zora on October 14, 2009

Here we are! I think I was meant for radio. I can’t seem to keep my eyes open when I talk. If that’s not really a symptom of autism, it probably should be. Behind-the-scenes gossip: We spent five hours taping this. Who knows how long they spent editing it. Result: two minutes. It makes me [...]

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