Spring has sprung in North Carolina, which means that this bear is finally coming out of her den on warmer nights and socializing with others in public settings. It also means that there are actually things to do, and people therefore are planning more things to do on top of those things to [...]
Continue reading...2. August 2008
My review of Hendersonville’s LaRiserva Ristorante for VisitNC.com is now online for their August edition. It’s the main story on their Food & Wine page- you can read it here or here.
Continue reading...31. May 2008
I usually bring my lunch to work, to save money and to control/know what I eat, which I always find is harder when you are eating other people’s food. But occasionally I go out just to get a break from my desk and the office. But there’s not much to choose from in our office [...]
Continue reading...20. May 2008
I was out of milk and had only one egg last week, but I got in the mood to bake something sweet anyway. I pulled out my favorite cookbook, Amy Sedaris’ “I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence,” and found this recipe for peanut butter cookies, for which I had everything to make it already in the [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2008
My first trip to France was when I was 15, accompanied by my under-enthused high school French class and my teacher, my mom, my stepsister, and my stepsister’s mom as chaperones. From the get-go, everyone complained about the “rude French,” talked in muddled language with Southern accents (”par-laay vooo Anglaaays?”), and dominated a 10-foot radius [...]
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12. April 2009
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