Here we go. I blinked and there went Thanksgiving. And now, we're weeks away from Christmas and New Year's and I'm still shopping for gifts, tryin...
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Talk about a switching of gears. Like all vacations, short or long, mine came to an abrupt end following a luscious Sunday roast enjoyed in East L...
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'Tis the season of edible holiday treats! Everyone I know is making peppermint bark, molasses cookies (+ smoky ginger-molasses cookies!), gingerbr...
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I'm writing this post from Matt's parents' house in Ohio, where we're currently celebrating his dad's 70th birthday. It's one of the few times I'm f...
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For a couple of years in my twenties, I was lucky enough to travel to New York for work. I remember listening to my hype song — Rihanna's Umbrel...
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A friend I was recently hanging out with at a wedding said, “I don’t think people read blogs anymore.” She hasn’t been blogging much herse...
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This post originally appeared in The Kitchn. Wishing you and your loved ones a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2011! My family, being Russian, c...
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Sometimes, when I'm feeling wanderlust, all I have to do is pick up a drink. They say that smell is the strongest sense tied to memory, but as che...
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When you're young, you probably don't think too much about life. I'm not talking about life, I'm talking about LIFE. With the context of where you...
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If you would have asked me a week ago what I would be doing this week, I would not have predicted I'd be in my kitchen making marshmallows, rectif...
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Have you ever wanted to just pack up your things and jet? Having lived in San Francisco for nearly a decade, I’ve been feeling generally exhaust...
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Leave it to the Italians to popularize a beverage that's intended to increase the appetite and/or aid with digestion. Bitter herbs stimulate diges...