I have gotten to the point where I would rather wear the same clothes for five days running than have to make a decision. I am having dreams that wake me up at night and I my vocabulary is suffering....
I can’t say I feel like a shell in the sand that you pick up because you just cannot get over how beautiful it is, how it glints in the sun and feels like silk in your hand. I have to say I fee...
One of the memories I have of my dad, who died a few months later when I was five, is of him taking me to Farm Shop on the Silas Dean Highway in Wethersfield to buy me an ice cream cone. “This ...
All in a day at Montevarchi: olive groves su a Ventena with a rolling view of well tended hills of trees and vines then down to the factory of Prada where if you take a number a world of royal blue s...
In the morning fog and swallows drifted over the fields of wheat that reach from the kitchen to the road but by the time the frittata was ready for breakfast, only the swallows remained. the group we...
I leave tonight for Italy. After I lift my heart up off the floor from having broken after kissing Ferdinand and Jonathan goodbye and try to keep it from falling again before I get through the doors ...
I usually tell Ferdinand there is no reason for dropping his chin to his dinner plate and lapping up the food without the help of hands or utensils. To walk the dog today I would have bumped down the...
Ferdinand and Ann and I sat at a table by the window with a view across the East River of Manhattan and ate chicken dumplings and edamame and cold sesame noodles and miso soup. Ferdinand loved it so ...
is my husband. I haven’t seen him for weeks more than a minute. I feel like an ocean fish on a freshwater drip, and my cooking is showing signs of cracking. Last night I made hamburgers w/sides...
and bed.
If I’m going to cook for somebody I have to step up to the plate. It’s like the movies–if you didn’t believe Clooney loved the girl it wouldn’t work. Clooney has to love...
Not all men are the same, not all dirt is the same, not all haircuts are the same, and not all zucchini are the same. What they have in common: 1. You can’t leave any of them in the bottom of a...
Ferdinand had a flow of snacks–a cut up orange, a cut up apple, “Tings”, a glass of milk, a two egg omelet, a carrot, a dish of peanuts and then we pogo sticked it down the piers; h...
Not everybody eats when the food is served. Because I am in love with it, obsessed with it, hunger for it, long for it, dream about it..I can’t say I understand on a cellular level, but as a co...
When I was 9 I smoked a cigarette with Susan B. and loved it so much I took up the habit the only way a nine year old can with no means. If I was at Susan B.’s on a Saturday, she had the cigare...
If I put both of my hands flat on my face and pull to the side, it’s an improvement. If I wore jeans with an elastic panel that worked in sort of an opposite way to the ones you get when you’re pregn...
On Saturday I went with Ferd to Rockaway, three blocks from the ocean, to walk on the beach and sit on the front porch with my friend Liz. She made us pasta w/roasted and smashed butternut squash and...
Why we do the things we do has as many layers as the earth’s crust. Most parents say they want to eat dinner with their kids, but what can feel like the truth isn’t actually the truth or ...
On Easter: toasted almonds w/lemon zest, fresh thyme, whole cloves of garlic, a tiny bit of sugar and salt pan seared asparagus carbonara tossed w/ penne and finished w/fried basil and parmigiano reg...
My friend Liz and I went out to lunch yesterday at Prune in the East Village. I love my friend Liz like crazy and I hardly ever see her. She lives about half an hour from me. Every once in a while we...
it was a bourbon and rye tasting and they needed to eat everything with their hands. Who doesn’t want a sandwich. I bought the bread at Grandaisy on 72nd and Broadway because when you make a sa...
The day after you have tried hard enough for long enough and you’re sitting instead of standing is not the day to make dinner complicated. I would recommend thinking about a sandwich or package...
Home from LA and it’s windy and sunny and I’m still missing. I’m lucky as a cloverleaf to have friends I love like sisters but it’s hard as nails to leave one that lives so fa...
I have been obsessed with vegetables like a mad crazy wait outside his door way after you’re usually up just to get you closer, in the pouring rain crush. Which is weird. We walked past George ...
to visit my friend and cook and talk and walk and sleep.
Me: You want to get take out? My husband: I don’t need to. Me: (in my mind) WHY NOT? My husband: (exit) He took Ferdinand to the dentist, and only in NYC I bet do they make dentist appt’s...
You’ve got your “reduce, reuse, recycle” t-shirt on (or maybe one like mine that says “let’s talk trash”) and you’re feeling good because you have a compost ...
Last night I went out by my lonesome to taste wine and cheese in the big city at Murray’s. On the train somewhere under the East River I realized I had no pen, no notebook, no hair tamer, and t...
When I was 11, Carl Henry went out to the backyard with a kerchief in his pocket ready for the sweat, and dug a six foot by six foot patch of dirt. I looked at it from the safety of the upstairs bath...
A friend of mine just posted a picture of 10 meals that she made for her family, labeled, dated, ziploc bagged and ready to be assembled. When I leave my family–which is part of my job–I ...
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