Happy Year of the Horse! Although I am not cooking a banquet to celebrate the new year, or really doing anything at all right now (although I do have a duck defrosting in the fridge..), I feel grateful to have this second shot at starting the year. January slipped by almost unnoticed. For more than …
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My brain finally catches up with the rest of me
While we were in Thailand, we spent three days on an island called Kho Khradan. We were staying in the middle of the island, which put us a five-minute walk away from three different beaches. Baki's favorite beach was Sunset Beach, which we reached by traipsing through the forest and then down a hair-raising flight …
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Merry Christmas from Bangkok! (Yesterday, we visited the zoo...)
In From the Cold
Our bathtub is full every day in summer, but now all there is inside it is a bunch of peach leaves. There is snow on the mountaintops and the temperatures in the garden have dropped to a cool 40 F in the sun. This may sound warm, but the lemongrass doesn't think so! It's that …
Still imagining
A few weeks ago Ali and I were sitting on the terrace having coffee. "There's a poem called "The Day Lou Reed Died" in the new New Yorker," said Ali and I snorted derisively. Then I felt like a jerk. Setting aside the fact that I was attempting to look down on someone who'd published …
Garden Correspondent 