From: Restaurant Association of America
To: Chefs of America
Every day we hear from restaurants around the nation exasperated at having to prepare special meals for those aberrant eaters – the vegetarians.
We understand [...]
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Stella and the sea creatures
Stella visited an island and went kayaking on the sea.
She saw a white heron hiding in the trees
And a sunken house with many seabirds.
The water was shallow and matted with sea grass.
A sea hare lived in the water.
He inked Stella’s hands.
A sea urchin crawled across her palm.
She kayaked into the mangrove swamps
and met a small [...]
Consumed with love
How do you say “I love you”? Don’t worry, help is at hand. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Red Envelope catalogue has posed a question that it can help answer.
Step One: take up acrobatics and cover the bed in rose petals. Let’s hope Mr. Right has good leg and abs [...]
Tidy TV
I like order, progress, and productivity. I feel good when I’ve ironed and tidied and organized. I have numerous lists and love crossing things off. It would be nice to be laid back and go with the flow, but my flow won’t go until it’s tidy.
And cable TV knows I’m out there. [...]
Objectification of desire: part two
A while ago I started ruminating on the objects that we acquire, what might be termed material culture, and today I continue.
One thing I have learned about taste is that it stays close to home. I remember hearing that vintage Poole Pottery is more expensive in the town of Poole in Dorset. That [...]
Clink, clink, fizz
Just in time for New Year’s Eve, five ways to drink your champagne.
1. Classic champagne cocktail: place one sugar cube in the bottom of the flute; add a few drops of angostura bitters; pour cognac – you want it to be no more than 20-25% of the whole; fill glass with champagne. [...]
Christmas past and presents
I’m 7 years old and it’s Christmas morning. I’ve been waiting for this day for six months. Being born on June 25, the two most important days of the year are perfectly spaced out.
I have gone through the traditional routine leading up to this moment: trying to be good, making a list, checking [...]
Reading prejudice
Dear Reader:
I often shy away from the popular, which occasionally means missing out on the great. A surfeit of hype clouds the original and layers it with expectation. However, I have tried to make a habit of tackling literary classics—in spite of the dreary image that this moniker and their popularity promote in [...]
Help
I was all set to write my blog about something else, when I ended up spending 90 minutes on the phone with a friend who is breaking down mentally, emotionally and physically. This is not the first time you have heard of this friend.
So, it’s making me think about how we help each other, or [...]
The Pirate Twins
One evening on the sands
Mary found
the pirate twins – so –
she took them home
and bathed them
and fed them
on this
that
and the other
she taught them how to dress
what ‘S’ stands for
where to find Jamaica
and the Milky Way
how to dance
and how to play
but they didn’t care
they bit their nails and sucked their thumbs
put things into the cat’s milk [...]
