Today I’m going to bake a carrot cake for Parrish. Parrish loves carrot cake, and tomorrow is her birthday.
The recipe comes from The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Desserts.
I’ll start by grating 2 cups of carrots.
While I grate the carrots, I’ll start thinking about the last time I baked a cake the day before [...]
There’s nothing the English like better than a good murder mystery. We have produced the kings and queens of the genre from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and Dick Francis. In fact, on Amazon there is a sub-category of British Detectives. We are also [...]
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3. Blue Stamp — Anderegg
4. Bells 1 — Born out of Moonshine
5. Suite No. 6 in D, Prélude, by J.S. Bach — Mstislav Rostropovich
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I used to live in London in a neighborhood called Wood Green. I lived off Lordship Lane, a major thoroughfare. Many years before I lived there, a company called Universal Publications Ltd. thrived at 581 Lordship Lane by producing the latest in party games. In a pre-TV world, people were hungry for new ways of [...]