I’m in the kitchen today – and also trying to avoid large bowls of Hershey’s miniatures – so please enjoy this flashback on me. I’m wearing scarves in the morning and socks to bed, so I know summer’s really over – but here’s where it started. From May 28, 2008 – The Last Time I [...]
Since I’ve already confessed one sin this week, might as well set the whole table. I like stuff. Stuff from…restaurants. And hotels. I like creamers and ashtrays and swizzle sticks. I like coffee cups. That one, over there? It may or may not have found its way out of my brother-in-law’s rehearsal dinner in Falun, [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, vacation on Aug 10th, 2008
Hitting the road this morning for Kansas again. Wanna see what I see the whole day? We walked through the Chicago Botanic Gardens the other day, one of my very favorite places here on the North Shore.
Posted in Josie, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer, vacation on Jul 23rd, 2008
Every August, the Kansas heat ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape – we flee by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that skims the long [...]
In Paris, the asparagus was white as snow in summer. It is such a common sight in French markets that I heard at least one American gasp upon seeing it. “That would cost a fortune at home,” she said, and it would. Here, we look at white asparagus like Siberian tigers – exotic and rare, [...]
