Recently—and I know you’re not going to believe this—I had a bad customer service experience with the phone company. During the course of this, I had to wait on hold to speak to: The Loyalty Department. This is really what it was called. I did get the problem resolved, but it made me realize that to […]
It’s not like I have a free 16-ounce rib-eye steak for lunch every day, but today I made an exception. It started when I wrote an article about buying meat at the farmers market. In it, I had a lot of nice things to say about the pork and not a lot of good to say […]
What makes a kid decide that she’s no longer interested in sauces or seasonings? It’s like Iris woke up one morning and said to herself, “Hey, you know what would be great on a hot dog? No mustard.” The other day Iris devoured a huge fried duck egg, but only after I made it look like […]
Iris never gets so excited about any food as when I ask her to help me put it on pizza. This is because she knows I’ll let her get away with stuffing as much into her mouth as ends up on the pizza. (“I’m just tasting some,” is her standard line.) My homemade Italian sausage is […]
When it comes to growing plants, I’m worse than a black thumb. I think I have no thumb. This summer we seemed to be doing well. We had a vigorous pot of cilantro, grown from seed. Then I bragged about the great salsa I made with it, and of course it immediately died. We have a […]