Category Archives: Food

And the Angels Sing!

By Erin | Published: July 14, 2011

If you have never had a baked pork bun, let me tell you just one thing: You need to have a baked pork bun. Preferably right now. And preferably made by a Chinese person in San Francisco. Preferably from this bakery right here: What is a baked pork bun, you ask? A baked pork bun [...]

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Our Week in Food

By Erin | Published: July 13, 2011

Our first day included the last nap of the week: from here on out, we were pretty much full-tilt into sightseeing and eating our weight in good food. In fact, I have a thing for taking pictures of meals. I have always done this, much to the great annoyance or amusement (depending on the person) [...]

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Food

By Erin | Published: June 29, 2011

“I recalled with a twinge of sadness how Japhy was always so dead serious about food, and I wished the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody’s food money to blow their heads off anyway.” Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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Saladmaster

By Erin | Published: June 16, 2011

This afternoon, after a nap, I had some energy and decided I wanted to make zucchini bread. Which, it turns out, was a very bad idea because making the zucchini bread completely wiped me out and I didn’t have enough energy to make dinner, so Jesse had to get McDonald’s. But, I got to use [...]

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“The Joy of Not Cooking”

By Erin | Published: April 19, 2011

While we’re on the topic of cooking and style, check out Megan McArdle’s article in the latest Atlantic. In “The Joy of Not Cooking,” McArdle  points out that women in the 1920s spent thirty hours a week in the kitchen. In the 50s, we were spending on average twenty. And now? A whopping 4.4-5.5 hours [...]

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