I find that time moves differently when you travel, or at least that's how it feels when at each and every turn your senses are being assailed by new sights, smells and flavors. It's both exhilarating and exhausting, an experience that you want to savor, but, by the time you've moved onto the next wonder,…
It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.-Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)As I sit here writing this in the Greek's and my bedroom listening to the…
"May the odds be ever in your favor."-Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games) This past week I've been much more interested in hunger than I have been in food. I haven't really been in the kitchen since Sunday night. In fact, I've been spending most of my days in the dungeons of Doe Library, rapidly producing…
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged.Missing me at one place search another,I stop some where waiting for you.-Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)It's funny to think I made this soup almost two weeks ago, but I've just felt so weird about posting it, considering the weather here on the west coast has been going…
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.- Nelson AlgrenHave you ever received a text message from your friend's fiance (whom you've never met) asking you to help him with a little surprise for the bride-to-be? My guess is probably not; however, let me assure you that these things do in fact…
Dining with Dostoevsky 