ICYM this. I’ve made it a dozen times and it works every time. It even scales down pretty faithfully for smaller servings, something I’m always looking for in recipes. (I wish Ina would write a cookbook on “Cooking for One.”) I’ve made this with angel hair, spaghetti, linguini, even penne. You can add Silver Salmon…
The receipts: Star Wars: A New HopeDirector: George LucasEditor: Marcia Lucas Pulp FictionDirector: Quentin TarantinoEditor: Sally Menke JawsDirector: Stephen SpielbergEditor: Verna Fields Taxi DriverDirector: Martin ScorceseEditor: Marcia Lucas GoodfellasDirector: Martin ScorceseEditor: Thelma Schoonmaker Lawrence of ArabiaDirector: David LeanEditor: Anne V. Coates
One of those great little museums who choose one topic and stick to it–the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska. I’ve been there three times and I’d go there again in a heartbeat. Just turn left at the twenty-foot hammer. And of course there’s a video. And just ’cause.
The best informed explanation of how Magyar talked Hungary into dumping Orbán. With zebras. Watch the video/read the transcript on Paul Krugman. More AP photos here.
April 2022. [internal chukar monologue]: “WTH. It’s April 7th, people, and instead of building a nest and making babies I’m sitting here getting snowed on while Crazy Lady takes pictures of me through her window. Enough to make a bird fly south again.” [internal Dana monologue]: “I looked up and he was gone, leaving this…
Harking back to a walking trip I made to France back in April 2015. The walk took us over a section of The Camino, also known as one of many routes European pilgrims and penitents took to Santiago de Compostela, where Saint James is allegedly buried and where he allegedly performed miracles for supplicants. This…
Welcome to the Land of the Standing Up Rocks, aka the Chiricahua National Monument, a collection of standing stones worn by wind and weather into weird and wonderful shapes. Those mountains in the distance are the Dragoon Mountains, where the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise’s Stronghold is. He died there and his people rode their horses…
I took this panorama standing on top of a dune at the far end of the loop that goes into White Sands National Park. It is one of the most extraordinary places I’ve ever been and I wished I’d brought one of those big green trash bags with me. Read on. You know that cheap…
Still on the road, researching the second Harvey Girl novel, this was spotted in the parking lot of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A purple Subaru Forester, ladies and gentlemen. Plus…it’s irridescent. Inside the IPCC there is a cafe where they serve the most delicious Indian taco you will ever eat…
This is how research works for writers. Pay attention, writers. (Literally and figuratively.) In preparation for writing The Harvey Girl, I read a bunch of books to do with Gilded Age America and the American Southwest in the 1890s, which must perforce include reading about Mexico during that same time. One very useful book was…
