Transformation on Toast
If I could put you inside a time machine and send you to 9 a.m., Christmas, in
my girlhood home, most of what you’d find would be unsurprising. My brother and
Food & Drink
On <em>Sprezzatura</em> and Chupa Chups
This article was first published in December 2008.
So the story goes that when Enric Bernat, Spaniard and former employee of an
apple jam factory, piped himself down on a barstool in Barcelona,
Whole Foods is Cheaper than Fast Food?
It started innocently enough. As my class sat thinking of topics to practice
pre-writing on, someone suggested “fast food.” I wrote FAST FOOD on the board
and the class began to suggest topics
Caramel
This article originally appeared in The Curator September 12, 2008.
So long ago I can’t remember when exactly, I heard that cliché, “begin at the
beginning,” and it made a deep personal
The Slow Art of Tea
As we remember the tragedies of September 11, 2001, Jenni Simmons offers a
reminder of the small rituals that comfort and root us. This essay originally
appeared in The Curator on November 28,