This weekend, instead of leaving my frigid, unheated house to go party somewhere warm, E and I decided to stay in and watch Errol Morris’ documentary, Standard Operating Procedure. Cheery, right? Now when the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib surfaced, I tried to avoid looking at them as much as possible, because I am [...]
Last night’s potluck turned out beautifully; as usual I forgot to photograph the food because when it was done we instantly ate it. I didn’t inherit the photography gene that my sister got, I guess. What I did inherit was the gene for cooking, though that much was not apparent during my teenage and college [...]
Sous vide: literally “under vacuum,” referring to a fancy pants French method of cooking vacuum sealed foods in water. After seeing it in action on last season’s Top Chef (courtesy of Richard Blais, one of the many fauxhawks that season), and seeing it repeatedly referenced on Ruhlman’s blog, I was intrigued but still needed someone [...]
I know it’s cliché and naive to romanticize pirates, but reading articles like this just fuel my fixation. Pirates are supposed to be an anachronism, from a bygone era of scurvy, sea monsters, and undiscovered islands lurking in the mists. They should only appear these days in amusement park rides-turned-movies, maybe, or as generic Halloween [...]
