Banquet Journal

one last food post, these, p's rapini stuffed bread.

pork and preserved vegetable with handmade noodles from lin's. and i have no pictures of their xiao long bao, but they make absolutely the best i have ever had. worth the wait!

celebrate

the lumberjack zebra cake

tammy made some cake wizardry happen this weekend: a lumberjack zebra cake had been requested, and she totally pulled it off.

eat

the italian job

been obsessing over this meal from an old copy of the now defunct gourmet, although i half think it's those dinner plates i am really obsessing about. maybe these? (although turnip gratin does sou...

canadian house and home

canadian house and home! we had a great time with this - janis, the photographer, and her assistant, made the day such a pleasure, and we are so proud to be featured in the December issue of what ...

from here.

Reading this: In the 1840s, when Marie Taglioni went on pointe for a few seconds in La Sylphide, her momentary weightlessness became an icon of the transcendent power of ballet. A pair of her sho...

remembering

This last image: Mrs. Mary Couchman, a 24-year-old warden of a small Kentish Village, shields three little children, among them her son, as bombs fall during an air attack on October 18, 1940. Th...

paper

the bear print is back

i will admit i was overwhelmed by everyone's disapointment when we sold out of our red bear (...i think about what's next, to a fault). but i have been convinced, and here he (she?) is. A signed a...

gretchen jones on design sponge

loving the hippy mix in gretchen jones' home, featured on design sponge.