Man, the thing I still find amazing about weather in New York, as opposed to Texas, is how it goes from summer to fall right away, like flipping a switch. One week, you’re eating tomatoes and sweltering, and the next it’s potatoes and greens and you’re wearing a jacket and…
I am so sorry that I’ve been AWOL on these posts for three weeks. Between travel and various other sucks on my time, I just didn’t really have the time to do it. But I have been keeping track of my cooking with CSA ingredients! So here’s a backlog of…
CSA Week #23 & #24 Because of all the traveling last weekend, I didn't have a chance to update the CSA blogging, so this is two weeks squished together. Unfortunately, I only have the food listing for one week, but for the other, it was the same sort of thing:…
LOS ANGELES — A 48-year-old Californian was arrested for drugging her husband’s dinner then cutting off his penis, saying he “deserved it,” police said Tuesday. Catherine Kieu Becker was booked for poisoning and assault with a deadly weapon after the incident in which she tied him to the bed Monday…
The lawmaker responsible for crafting a Republican budget plan that would effectively kill Medicare isn’t as frugal when it comes to his own money. Rutgers associate business professor Susan Feinberg told Talking Points Memo that she was at a Washington, D.C. restaurant Tuesday when she saw Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)…
COPENHAGEN — Greenpeace activists who gatecrashed a royal gala dinner at the December 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen and their helpers went on trial in the Danish capital Monday. According to Copenhagen City Court documents, 11 activists face charges ranging from falsifying documents and number plates and claiming…
LONDON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama held talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday, grappling with the turmoil across the Arab world and the NATO effort to dislodge Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi. Obama, on the third day of a European tour, swapped the glitter of a royal state…
WASHINGTON – Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is “close” to announcing another run for the White House in 2012, says Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a friend of his. The New York congressman told reporters at a dinner that Giuliani “is very close to saying he’s going to run,”…
Aretavia Kimbrough, of Staten Island, New York, was arrested Sunday for assaulting the father of her 8-month-old child, the New York Post reported. Charmean Allen, Kimbrough’s boyfriend and father of their son Charmean Allen Jr., said that Kimbrough woke him up at 7 a.m. and wanted to know what gifts…
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama lampooned the controversy over his birthplace, playing a clip from the Disney movie “The Lion King” to mock those who claim he was not American born. “My fellow Americans… ” Obama, who was born is the US state of Hawaii from a US mother,…