Posted in Josie, Tell Simmer on Dec 1st, 2008
What? You’ve already heard enough Josie this and Josie that, and how Josie loves jellybeans, and went to junior high, and went to Paris, blah blah blah? Well, Miss Twilight seems to think you haven’t heard enough – she’s fed up with “all those pictures of Cleo,” and demanded her own Tell Simmer, which this [...]
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Posted in Tell Simmer on Nov 24th, 2008
Only 30 years old, Martha Stewart Living’s Senior Syle Editor Eddie Ross is an established triple threat, conquering catering, publishing, and television. You wouldn’t want to be his competitor – as a brave few were, in Season 2 of Bravo’s Top Design – but you’d certainly want to hang around and benefit from all that [...]
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Posted in Chicagoland, Tell Simmer on Nov 17th, 2008
Sally Jacobs and I graduated from the same big Chicagoland high school at about the same time (note the feathered yearbook hair, left) but with 6,000 other kids around, it took 23 years and some internet magic to get us together. Now in Madison, Wisconsin (“Sconny Run,” in New Trier talk) she spends her archivist [...]
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Posted in Tell Simmer on Nov 10th, 2008
Diana Kuan is a freelance writer and cooking instructor whose work has been featured in The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, and stack of other tasty reads. Mostly Beijing-based (with occasional US-homesick pangs) her blog Appetite for China is indeed about regional Chinese foods, but also features what Diana calls “the offspring” – Chinese food [...]
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Posted in Tell Simmer on Nov 5th, 2008
This week welcomes Jane – aka Modernemama – from Beach House, a Long Island-based blog featuring design, garden, art and yes – food. Unrepentant food. Normally about now I’d continue my little intro – I’m the hostess, you know – but the bio Jane sent was a tale in itself, so lively and mysterious that [...]
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