“I’m in the milk and the milk’s in me,” chants Mickey, in Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen, a bizarre little book about baking, dreaming, sleeping, swimming, in milk. A baby’s dreamlife, a nursing mother’s diet. I crave all bready things. . . comfort me with wheat and oats, fondue and French toast, bread and [...]
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milklove
Posted in Dairy, Whimsical on January 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
backyard fun: flowers, popsicles & cakes
Posted in Baking, Sweet Things, Whimsical on May 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In just under a month, we’ll be moving from Auburn to Minneapolis. Quite a change. We’ve been soaking up the summery May weather here by spending time in the big backyard. We found blackberry bushes in the corner near the wren house. The nasturtiums we planted are blooming in spite of the drought. It sounds [...]
holy holidays!
Posted in Baking, Whimsical on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Once again, we’ll be traveling during Christmas, so we got a small, manageable, multi-purpose, potted tree: a rosemary bush. Saturday was an interesting amalgam of holidays, of kitsch and authenticity, peppermint sticks and latkes. In the morning, we joined some friends at the local John Deere dealer for a picture with Santa and to climb [...]
making a house a home
Posted in Baking, Whimsical, Wine on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It takes a long time, because day-to-day life doesn’t stop and wait for you to finish. Gradually, though, we’re making this place comfy inside and out. While Peter’s been off winning prizes and giving readings these past two weekends, Jack and I have been giving our yard some love. We’ve raked pine needles into big [...]
cafe culture
Posted in Drinks, Philosophical, Restaurants, Whimsical on July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s what I miss most about Rome. How could that be? Something so mundane, minor, lowly. What about the art, the architecture, the people, the food? I’ll explain. Cafes in Italy encapsulate so much of the culture at large. During these weirdly liminal weeks of re-entry into American culture—when I’ve felt like I’m two places [...]
It’s done.
Posted in Cheese, Fruit, Restaurants, Whimsical, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cafe Necci, eat locally, local food, locavore in Rome, Rome locavore, roving locavore on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My dissertation, that is, is done. Sadly, so is our packing. We’ve been saying goodbyes to good good friends here in Rome, and will leave on Thursday. It’s an anticipated sadness and loss, so it’s one that ebbs and flows, comes and goes at unexpected moments. Life goes on, too, as do the food and [...]
Primo Maggio
Posted in Whimsical on May 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was La Festa dei Lavoratori—Labor Day—in Italy. Out in the garden, at least 4 picnics and cookouts went on, merging and mixing and drifting apart again as the children wandered in and out of every group, from 1 pm till dark. The weather was perfect: no clouds, mid-seventies, breezy. There were, as usual at [...]
equinox cookout
Posted in Beer, Meat, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, eat locally, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, roving locavore on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was actually pretty chilly, and the sky was gray, but the fruit trees are blooming, the kids are antsy, and everyone just wanted to hang around in the big back garden yesterday. The grill was going from 11 to 7. There were pork sausages of all kinds, veal chops, pork chops, lamb shoulder, lamb [...]
garden idyll
Posted in Herbs, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, eat locally, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, Rome sustainable food on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After one of the more fantastic of Saturday lunches at the Academy—which included my new favorite twist on panzanella (big olive-oil—or was it chicken fat—soaked bread chunks, radicchio, fennel, pinenuts, and raisins, with it’s delicious balance of bitter and sweet), and chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and violets—Jack felt like sticking around with the [...]
food in art: grapes and whales
Posted in Fruit, Philosophical, Seafood, Water, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, food in art, Moby Dick, roving locavore on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At a junction of thoughts that represents some substance of my life right now: a chapter in Moby Dick; a talk about food in high art given by Leonard Barkan; the local-food-movement mantra know your food, know your farmer; swimming, during which activity my thoughts form folds with each lap and the thought that my [...]
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