Sauced In New York Sometimes the food is in the sauce, sometimes we are
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TREATISE ON YOGA PANTS
Yes, the most comfortable pants in the world are yoga pants. But they were made to be worn to yoga class. Or at your own home, when guests are not coming over. Unless you run yoga classes at your home. Please, please, women! Keep your yoga pants where they belong! They are a small slice of heaven, regardless of your ... Read More » -
OF LICE AND MEN
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MINDFUL OF MY MINDSET
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NOT-SO-GOOD LEGS
Our requisite “buenos días” as we pass locals on our Camino landed us in quite a conversation this morning. We were in Arcade, seven kilometers into our 18 kilometer day. She was headed uphill, maybe 80 years old, with a cane for support. She was well below five feet tall, spritely for one with a cane, with lively eyes. She stopped ... Read More » -
PAST AND PRESENT…
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BALANCING RIGHTS TO CONFIDENTIALITY
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GUILTY PLEASURES
I recently discovered cookie butter from Trader Joe’s. That’s right. Cookie butter. They suggest it being delicious on a number of things (hello waffles!) but I find that it’s fabulous off a spoon while standing in-front of the fridge at 2 a.m. Fortunately, my roommate doesn’t like it, thus leaving more for me. On closer examination of that previous sentence (and ... Read More » -
AUTUMN PICKS
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HOW DO YOU CHEERS?
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SOMETIMES IT’S JUST BLIND LUCK
A week or so ago, we were in Sacramento for a wedding and, after picking us up at the airport, Holly’s brother, Brian, drove us to a tapas bar downtown (inappropriately named Tapa the World, since the city is flat as a pancake) for some food and wine. Brian asked me to select a wine and handed me the list. The ... Read More » -
INNOVATIVE BRILLIANCE OR SHORT-SIGHTED PRESENTATION?
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LIVING IN A WHEAT-LESS WORLD
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A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
This is not the all-inclusive list of my favorite things (which would include reading in bed with a cup of coffee, reading in a hammock with a glass of wine, reading, coffee and wine). Rather, it’s a list of my favorite kitchen things. Sharp knives are a must, obviously. But I don’t have any pots with fitted lids (I use a sautée ... Read More » -
CHANNELING GRANDMA
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ADVENTUROUS PALATES
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FRESHLY CUT
There is nothing more luxurious to me than freshly cut flowers in the house. In college, I would splurge once a month on a bouquet of something pretty from the Whole Foods in Santa Fe. It made me feel rich when I was anything but (priorities, I know). Later, when I lived in a climate that was warm year round, ... Read More » -
BOUTIQUE ITALIAN WINES
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HOW DO YOU CHEERS?
