Her face is whiter than the inside of a turnip. (Lebanese saying) For the past two weeks, I've watched as list after list after list of all of the "best of 2012" movies, cookbooks, books, gadgets, tv shows, etc. have come out. There's a part of me that loves this kind of listing; I…
I worked on the Invention until my hands shook. When I came home, if the house was empty, I practiced in a panic and, finally, it was almost right. On Wednesday, I went to Mr. Parker's and stood at the doorway, expecting something drastic and changed, but it was all the same. There were cookies…
"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…
Dining with Dostoevsky 