A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is brilliant, and better than the play or the movie. Williams’ introduction (included in the Signet edition, the one I read, and surely in at least some others) really is essential reading for any writer. * R means rage, resentment, regret, resistance, and of course Reeducation. Today my … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Tennessee Williams
The Anxious Black Woman has given me a Splash Award. I am honored to be included among the illustrious and fascinating blogs she lists! The Splash award is given to alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive, and inspiring blogs. When you receive this award, you get to: 1. Put the logo on your blog/post. 2. Nominate up … More The SPLASH Awards
This baba ganoush is really good and note — you do not need a blender to make baba ghanoush. I had always thought you did, forgetting that blenders are new and baba ghanoush, old. Axé.
Chicken in chicken liver sauce. 2 tbs. lard or corn oil 16 chicken livers (that is a lot, and you need them all — buy two pounds) 1 garlic clove, minced 1 small onion, minced 3 hard- cooked egg yolks 2 tbs. minced minced parsley 1/2 cup hot beef broth or more salt to taste … More Pollo Mariscala
Here again is the great and heroic Faubourg Tremé — the kind of place Jindal and Nagin, as well as the technically whiter suspects, have been doing their best to kill, and using hurricane recovery as an excuse. Meanwhile, here is the trailer for this same documentary. The trailer is much livelier than the exerpts … More Faubourg Tremé 4
Happy St. Joseph’s Day, a very important day here and my favorite. In honor of St. Joseph, the worker, we will continue to study New Orleans, which is also a most Italian city. Besides the St. Joseph’s altars, there are Mardi Gras Indians on parade at the Feast of St. Joseph. We are on the … More Faubourg Tremé 3
For St. Patrick’s Day we will continue to study new Orleans, which is also an Irish city. It was beautiful and sunny, and with daylight savings time starting so early now, the light lasted a long time. I found a cypress end table for the deck, paid off the carpenter who fixed the door, and … More Faubourg Tremé 2
On Eggplant If you are roasting it whole to make baba ganoush, you should prick it with a fork first so it does not explode in the oven. Otherwise, no matter what you will ultimately do with your eggplant, you should first cut it open or slice it. Now salt it, put it on paper … More Notes from Z’s Kitchen
I Most of my nice clothes now are not very conservative. I need blazers and suits, which are terribly expensive if you buy the only kind that really do the job. I also need some more casual conservative options. For my most recent talk I was wearing a straight black skirt, black heels and off … More Fashion Zero
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