Tag: food

• Book Review: Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

  If books were people, and if Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin married 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, and if those two book-people had a baby, it would be Love & Saffron by Kim Fay, and that baby’s godmother would be Ruth Reichl.  I devoured this book in one day. Granted I was in…

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  April 19, 2022

  Essay

  cooking, epistolary, food, historical fiction, Kim Fay, Los Angeles, Mexico, Spanish, Washington, writing

• Turning the Tables

  The first time I really felt like a grown-up was when my parents came to spend the weekend with me in my tiny studio apartment. I cleaned like a fiend all week, shopped for all my dad’s favorite foods, changed the sheets and made my bed like a hospital orderly (I would be sleeping on…

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  June 19, 2017

  Essay

  food, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Maryland, Niagara Falls, Pittsburgh, praying, reading, writing

• Living in Belgium: A Few of My Favorite Things

  For two glorious years I lived abroad, as a “trailing spouse” expat living in Waterloo, Belgium. Yes, that Waterloo. As in the battlefield, which is the site of the famous 1815 Battle of Waterloo. As in Napoléon, Emperor of France, who met his great defeat at the hands of England’s Duke of Wellington. In July…

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  February 1, 2015

  Essay

  Belguim, cheese, Europe, expat, food, L.L.Bean, Waterloo