Three (or Four) Super-Cool Mother’s Day Gifts
The most important day of the year is just around the corner. No, not my birthday. Mother’s Day. Think about it: Where would you be, if not for your mother? Dude, you wouldn’t exist. Doesn’t your mom deserve something as cool, as individual, as drop-dead fabulous as you are? Some of my favorite people in the ...Keep Reading
Guest Post: Monica Bhide’s A Life of Spice
If you’re not already reading Monica Bhide’s work, you will be once I introduce you to her. She’s one of my favorite writers: Her work is deeply personal and often moving, and although food is her lens the work is almost always about something larger. I’ve written before about Monica’s book Modern Spice, and a ...Keep Reading
A Guide to the Other Little Italy
When I was a kid, my parents would pile us all into the station wagon a few times a year and drive 20 minutes south to the Bronx, to the Jewish enclave around Lydig Avenue. That’s where I first tasted falafel, and where every trip would end with the most delicious treat imaginable: A black-and-white ...Keep Reading
Sanity-Saving, Last-Minute Dinner Trick
I love hate love Thanksgiving—all the planning and cleaning and cooking and strategizing and cooking and cooking and cooking… Know what I hate? Thanksgiving week dinners. After spending hours thinking about and working on Thursday’s feast, the last thing I want to do is devote more time to cooking dinner Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Seriously, ...Keep Reading
Truer Words Were Never Spoken: Mean Moms Rule
I don’t read a lot of parenting books. Any more, I mean. From the time we first started trying to conceive until Harry was about 3, there was usually a book or seven on my nightstand that promised to help me avoid the horrific damage I was sure to cause if I didn’t read that ...Keep Reading
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