Posts under ‘Iowa City’

Somewhere along the way, I picked up a Very Good Idea: Always keep a bottle of sparkling wine chilling in the fridge. Do this at all times. No exceptions. After all, one never knows when a celebration will break out, and one must be prepared. Often, good news arrives in an instant, leaving no time [...]

There is still a crazy load of snow and ice slicking up Iowa City, but at least for today, the sun shone down and did some helpful melting-like work. Last night, some of my friends and I headed out for the evening, and we decided we were all sick of snow boots: although no one [...]

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At BlogHer ’07, I attended a fabulous dinner with a group of other food bloggers, some of whom attended the conference and some of whom live in the area. At the table that night, we got to talking about my particular obsession with Lost. I told my table neighbors about my friend Betsy, who lives [...]

The votes came in, and my registration has been filed for the 2008 Winter Garden Fair. And while this was a fair and democratic (albeit public) election, the fact is, democracy took a beating. Here’s the thing: The votes came down heavy on the side of Starting Garden Transplants. In fact, 11 of you voted [...]

“Are you going to write about the caucuses on your blog?” asked one of my friends a couple of weeks before January 3. “I really can’t think of a way to tie it to gardening or cooking,” I said. “I really do try to keep things, you know, topical.” “I just thought you might have [...]

I have been known to get fairly passionate about food. When presented with the opportunity, I am positively incapable of not launching into an explanation of how to know whether or not a certain fish is sustainable and why you and you and you should care. I give the grocery store tomatoes a large berth [...]

As I was writing an email yesterday to someone here in Iowa City who has had a profound influence on my life during the past two years, it occurred to me that, in fact, it had been exactly two years. Two years since I arrived into town, shell-shocked by circumstance, already missing my friends back [...]

Before I discovered my cruel and unusual punishment of the hanging tomato, I stopped by my local Earl May store to try to figure out what to buy as a replacement plant to go in the hanging basket. I know I asked for suggestions, and the suggestions were good. But did I print out said [...]

The latest issue of Edible Iowa River Valley has, in fact, hit the streets, featuring a cover story on Iowa-made ice cream written by yours truly. I saw a stack of copies through the window of Devotay when I walked by yesterday afternoon, but you can also find one at a number of other spots [...]