I didn’t really want you, but I want you now–was so empty in me. Feel you crashing down, into the empty world (the music stops), want to rescue want to scream out loud “you will always be mine”; (part one)

It’s a little ridiculous, as my husband would say, how much Nancy Botwin has influenced my style lately–I’m shopping at Anthropologie and American Apparel, embroidery and ruffles aren’t necessarily verboten anymore, and I bought two pink tees.  Pink is not a color I wear–living in a room colored in the stuff is enough to set [...]

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Top Chef New York: let’s hack up some fish!

Due to the ridiculousness of last week’s episode, rife with gimmicks, product placements and misnomers of “all-stars,” I have chosen not to recap it.  I will wax a little on Jeff’s exit, however; while likely not the Top Chef in this group, he is extremely talented–I just wish he could focus his ideas more and [...]

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Blue in green;

It’s been a hectic few days here:  two interviews in two days, a thank-you-note writing blitz, and well…that’s it.  But it’s enough.
Our friends who came over for dinner a few weeks ago to hang out and watch Mad Men are going to do so again on Friday, and L and I want to wear period-evocative [...]

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Days offer spades of hurled outcries, gone is the fair five and dime;

Over the last few months we started getting into Weeds thanks to friends of ours loaning us the first season on DVD; since then, we’ve received all three seasons and only recently finally went through all of the episodes.  There’s a lot to love about this series as evidenced by its multiple award nominations, and [...]

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Top Chef New York: restaurant wars!

From the first season of Top Chef, the challenge now affectionately known as Restaurant Wars has always been entertaining, from Stephen in season 1 babbling ad nauseum about the wine selection for his restaurant, to the do-over required in season 3, and this go-around was no different.
Appropriately enough the guest judge for both rounds this [...]

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Top Chef New York: country chefs, city chefs;

Dio mio!  This week’s episode was one that got this household fired up, for oh so many reasons, so let’s just dig in and honor this episode, shall we?

Image, as always, from Bravotv.com, but for some reason it won’t let me link directly  to it. 

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Top Chef New York: Gail? Gail?

The title of this week’s episode, “Focus Group,” naturally has me incredibly intrigued–especially after last week’s total letdown with a non-elimination.  That, along with the promise of a double knifing and a new judge meant that we were going to have quite a good episode in store for us, and happily, we weren’t disappointed:

(photo from [...]

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Top Chef New York: happy holidays?

I know I’ve dragged my feet on writing this recap–it was actually one of my least favorite episodes of the season, and the conclusion didn’t provide a satisfying end for the show going on a holiday hiatus, so I didn’t have a deep desire to write about it.  While it was a supersized episode, it [...]

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Top Chef New York: a foodie bridal shower;

Ah, the bridal shower:  a chance for a bride-to-be to gather with her friends and loved ones and open presents and catch up with people you haven’t seen in forever.  Mine was held back in July at my godmother’s gorgeous house, and it was a fun afternoon–albeit on a stinking hot day.  So hot, in [...]

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Top Chef: ready for primetime, yes; daytime, TBD;

Another Wednesday, another Top Chef at 10 PM.  Continuing with last week’s episode ending in tears, they waterworks continue as Alex, a Brillo-headed chef (as Michael called him while we sipped on Barbera d’Asti) weeps as he reads a letter Richard left him (it’s shockingly long for an acquaintance that lasted what–a few weeks?) to [...]

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