Impressed by my ever involved Adventures in Domesticity, my mother last month gave me two Julia Child cookbooks: Julia Child & Company and Julia Child & More Company. My mom, who likes to call herself C-Side, explained to me that more than any other tomes, these two cookbooks elevated her culinary education. This was all …
Yearly Archives: 2009
ADVENTURES IN DOMESTICITY: Red-Cooked Pork Edition
About a month ago, I discovered the Sichuan cookbook Land of Plenty by Fuchsia Dunlop online and became immediately intrigued. The collection of recipes has received rave reviews from critics, bloggers, and buyers on sites like Amazon, and after having perused various images of dishes people had whipped up from the book, I felt an …
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Merry Christmas, My Christian Friends
I may be Jewish, but I still like to think at this time of year, I have the “Holiday Spirit,” which means I’m nice and awesome to each other. Of course, I’m always nice and awesome to everyone, but alas, I’m feeling a bit bitter tonight because while I was away in NY, my building’s …
SURVIVOR PHOTOCAP: Million Dollar Baby
If you haven’t seen last night’s epic two hour Survivor: Samoa finale (followed by the always too-short reunion), then you best turn away from this post right now. In fact, you should just walk away from your computer because chances are it’s gonna be ruined for you either here or on Facebook or on Twitter …
DEAD CELEBRITIES: Brittany Murphy Edition
After Saturday Night Live’s recent parody of Brittany Murphy on “Weekend Update” had us asking where the once white-hot actress had disappeared to, sad news emerges from the land of TMZ. Murphy has reportedly died of full cardiac arrest at the young age of 32, thus adding yet another surprising celebrity death to the already …
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Help Dr. Mick Trimming Win $100k
Tonight is the big finale for the wonderful Surivor: Samoa season, and along with learning who will take home the million dollar cash prize, we’ll also discover who is the fan favorite. The winner of that poll will take home a cool $100,000, and while I don’t usually pay attention to these contests, this time …
HOUSEWIVES PREVIEW: Men First and the Gimme Gimme's
Major drama looks to be heading our way tonight on The Real Housewives of Orange County. As we all remember from last week’s episode, Vicki had planned out a whole girls’ weekend in Florida, but alas, Simon and Jim decided that they wanted to crash the party, lest their untrustworthy wives veer from the straight …
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SQUIRRELS: Yea or Neigh?
I didn’t get a chance to watch the Top Chef reunion last night, but I did get a chance to see this squirrel, which was so bold as to come up to my front stoop without any fear of human attack. It has spent the past ten minutes licking the bricks, which seems odd, but …
HOUSEWIVES PHOTOCAP: Keeping Up with the Upkeep
It’s just too easy to mock the Real Housewives of Orange County for all the cosmetic surgery and enhancements that they undergo, but really, shouldn’t we applaud these women for being so open and upfront about their physical alterations when so many others refuse to ‘fess up to such similar modifications? Eh, probably not. Proving …
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TOP CHEF PREVIEW: Reunion Time!
In what may prove to be one of the duller hours of the year, Bravo is gathering all the “cheftestants” from Top Chef: Las Vegas for a reunion where we’ll finally get the answers to our burning questions such as… um… uh… what’s it like to get an AWFUL tattoo? (That’s basically the only pressing …