After 30 days of blogging, I wanted to end with a fun giveaway post. Kenny gave me a book of crossword puzzles for my birthday, and we’ve been obsessed with working through it. That book – as well as a crossword post on the The Urban Muse blog – was my inspiration for this crossword puzzle giveaway. To play, fill out [...]
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The Blogathon Finale: Crossword Puzzle Giveaway
Posted in Books, Fun Food Bites, tagged crossword puzzle, discovery education, giveaway on May 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Baltimore Counts! Book (And Local Food Facts)
Posted in Art and Food, Books, tagged Baltimore Counts! book, holiday gift ideas, holland brown books, ice cream on December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I have mad Baltimore pride, so I love the new Baltimore Counts! book from Holland Brown Books. It’s a counting book for kids, but it’s also filled with fun Baltimore facts and artwork from local artists – and Kenny’s one of the artists. His painting is with fact #20. (Kenny and I even made it onto the website [...]
Dishing Up Maryland by Lucie Snodgrass
Posted in Baltimore, Books, tagged dishing up maryland, farmers market, john shields, local, local food, lucie snodgrass, stuffed ham on September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Lucie L. Snodgrass’s Dishing Up Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to The Chesapeake Bay is the newest addition to my small cookbook library. I bought it last weekend at the Baltimore Book Festival after watching Lucie and fellow local cookbook author John Shields prepare a delicious potato salad with boiled dressing and a pear [...]
5 Opportunities for Food Writers
Posted in Books, Writing, tagged anthony bourdain, community cookbooks, creative nonfiction, food writers, food writing, how to pitch, medium raw, readymade magazine on September 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A few months before I started this blog, I was thinking about moving to Chicago for journalism school. I researched the benefits of attending j-school first, and learned that many people recommend an alternative: learn the technical aspects of writing from an internship or on the job, and instead study a subject you’re interested in. [...]
The Huffington Post’s “The Week of Eating In Challenge”
Posted in Books, Experiments, Food News, tagged cathy erway, the art of eating in, the huffington post, the week of eating in challenge on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you think you can eat in for an entire week? Even for me, a person who eats most of her meals in, a full week of home-cooked food is a long time. I run out of dinner ideas, or I’m tired of doing dishes, or I just want to eat at a restaurant because I like it. [...]
Snow Day Food Activities
Posted in Baltimore, Books, Fun Food Bites on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s another snow day in Baltimore! (Unless you’re my friend Ryan, who is sure he is going to have to go to work.) If you’re itching to get out of the house, What’s to Eat Baltimore? and the Baltimore Restaurant Examiner have been posting lists of open restaurants and bars on their blogs and on [...]
Hot and Sour Soup
Posted in Baltimore, Books, Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged black Chinese vinegar, Chinese food, hot and sour soup, ming tsai, the asian kitchen cookbook on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it’s 20 degrees outside and your heater is set to a cold 60 degrees inside, how can you quickly warm up? (And no, you can’t turn up the heat.) Would you: a) Take a hot shower. b) Turn your hair dryer on at the hottest setting and blast your face. c) Make some hot and [...]
10 Great Gifts for the Food Lover, Part Deux
Posted in Baltimore, Books, Fun Food Bites, tagged michele's granola, restaurant.com gift certificates, silicone rolling pins, top chef quickfire cookbook, zeke's coffee on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a little blast from the past in the title. Yes, that would be Hot Shots, Part Deux with Charlie Sheen which, come to think of it, I have never seen. My mind just went there as I typed. But anyway… This is a continuation of Monday’s 10 Great Gifts for the Food Lover, Part [...]
Food News, November 13, 2009: New Food Books for Fall 2009
Posted in Books, Food News, tagged David Chang, Eating Animals, Ellie Krieger cookbook, I Shudder, John Besh cookbook, Jonathan Safran Foer, Momofuku Cookbook, Paul Rudnick on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In this week’s Food News: food books that I want to read, hopefully over winter break before the spring semester starts. Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer: Safran Foer, the author of Everything is Illuminated, spent his adolescent and young adult years shifting food roles – sometimes he was a carnivore, sometimes a vegetarian. But when he [...]




