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Welcome to the Jungle

by zora on March 3, 2010

How to induce cognitive dissonance: read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, then go to a pig roast. Where the hosts are playing Guns N’ Roses.
That’s how I spent my winter vacation in Bali, and I wrote about it for this month’s issue of Perceptive Travel. You can read the whole thing here: Eating a Personal [...]

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More Pie: My Kinda Recipe

by zora on November 19, 2009

I’ve been out of the loop here for a week because my dad and my brother were visiting. We made pumpkin pie on Sunday. It was kind of funny when both my dad and I were squinting at the recipe on the Libby’s can, and talking through how we usually modify it (1.5X spices, cream [...]

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On Travel Writing

by zora on November 3, 2009

Last week, I rolled back into town and right back on the wee rec-room stage at Word to talk about travel writing.
This is basically a big shout-out post. But since there’s so little community among travel writers (we’re always, um, traveling), it’s nice to wallow in it a bit.
Great night! Although I was rather long-winded, [...]

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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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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 feel much [...]

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Me and Tamara on Brian Lehrer

by zora on October 10, 2009

We were! Laughing like loons, but there we were…

Here’s the segment page.

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The Food Obstructions

by zora on October 9, 2009

I’ve been talking about constraints and creativity and cooking off and on for years, especially after I came out of the theater from The Five Obstructions, leaping with glee.
Now Lars von Triers’s devilish little setup has finally been applied to the Brooklyn cook-off sensibility, in an event called The Food Obstructions. I face the five [...]

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Fiji Meat Man

by zora on October 7, 2009

Thanks to Eat Me Daily, I am celebrating my completion of my guidebook work in style. Love that ‘16 tons’ is shoehorned into the lyrics. And I want one of those Saran Wrap setups.

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