Totally unrelated to food


CtB goes DIY (and some unfortunate news about overdue library books)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Ta da! Here are the results of my very first DIY project! I inherited this particle board dresser from a friend six years ago. I forgot to take “before” photographs, but it started out an uninspiring “birch” color, with various stains, scratches and ugly nicks.
I’d long wanted to paint it but was intimidated by the process, particularly […]

Olive

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I must confess that DIY took up most of my weekend, leaving not much time for cooking. My painted dresser looks very pretty, however, and I will post pictures of it when it’s dry and assembled (annoyingly, I forgot to take “before” shots — sorry).
In the meantime, I wanted to post some pictures of my […]

Working class cats

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Even before the New York Times published an article about New York City’s bodega cats, I have been in love with them. Lucia and I once saved a deli cat on Hudson Street from choking on sausage casing (by “saved” I mean that we chanted “Save the cat! Save the cat!” until a passerby actually stopped to […]