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Boy, what a bumpy five, six months it’s been, what with Egmont and now this looming move. I’m kind of frazzled, and this entry reflects that because it’s in two parts. I started it days ago at a Starbucks in…
I’m so tempted to make the foodie portion of this long and drawn-out, but that won’t change what I’m going to post. So if you’d rather skip over the pics and jump to the end, be my guest. I’ll catch…
Full disclosure: I’m writing this on Saturday–wait, shouldn’t I be baking a pi(e)?–because, by this time tomorrow, I’ll be halfway across the pond. My UK trip is only partly pleasure;I’ve planned to take in a few plays, for example. (Hint:…
If you remember, last week I made a Diamond Blue in honor of Leonard Nimoy. That meant I also had about a half bottle of Champagne still sitting around, begging to be drunk before it lost its fizz. So I…
Full disclosure: there is no Sunday’s Cake at this moment. The husband’s leaving town for a couple days and so if he’s not going to whisk a cake away to his lab, there’s no way I’m tempting fate by having…
I’ve been on the road for most of the last week, so I didn’t do up a Friday’s cocktail until Sunday, although I had the Vidalia-version of the Old-Fashioned at Vidalia, this fabulous Southern-style restaurant in D.C., on Wednesday. This…
So this week I decided to experiment with what was reportedly one of Hemingway’s favorites that he contributed to a celebrity book of cocktails way back in 1935, Death in the Afternoon: a heady, boozy concoction of absinthe and Champagne….
As you can see, I’ve been remiss these past two weeks. One Sunday, I was working to a deadline and so the cake didn’t happen. Last week, I was at the ALA Midwinter on Saturday (bittersweet dinner with some EgmontUSA…
Nothing cures the after-holidays’ doldrums better than a good dose of chocolate, so I set about to do that today. The result, courtesy of Christie Matheson’s Cake Simple is luscious, moist, dense, and so rich you could gain weight just…
Since I had more than two cups of mincemeat left from that steamed pudding I made last week, I figured . . . c’mon, there’s got to be some kind of cake you can make with mincemeat! Well, it turns…