Tag: politics

Breakfast of Champions

Cheddar popcorn and beef jerky, 6:20 am, New Jersey Turnpike, en route to D.C....

YES WE DID

Sorry to take a partisan political moment, but I headed down to NYC for an election party (after voting, of course!) and just had to capture it. After an anxious hour on the subway without election coverage, my first drink...

Election Cake

"I like the idea of baking [to celebrate] the right to vote," says Kim O'Donnel, whose article on election cake appeared in The Washington Post two years ago. So do I! Election cake is actually a yeast bread. It's...

Read this

UPDATE: I was actually so encouraged by the vision presented by Pollan's article that I had a vision of my own. Of a t-shirt. You can buy one on Zazzle.com. I wanted to give all of my royalties to...

Eat Local Challenge Week 1: Discussing diets

As much as I love talking publicly about food, I hate talking publicly about diets. And not just restrictive weight-loss diets, but any pattern or habit of eating. If you are happy with your diet, you sound self-satisfied and...