ellaella on Jul 2nd, 2007Pasta portions
Years ago in Florence, I let an Italian take me to dinner; I knew he was hoping for more than dinner but we’d met at a museum so how awful could he be?
When our small portions of pasta arrived, before the main course as is the custom, he launched into a diatribe about what barbarians […]
ellaella on Jul 2nd, 2007No mayo curried deviled eggs
Something about food blogging should have been obvious from the start, but wasn’t: I think about food more than I used to and probably a lot more than you do. So while I was at dinner at an Indian restaurant recently, enjoying my raita, I thought about the no mayo deviled eggs I was working on […]
ellaella on Jul 1st, 2007Obama sets money record
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced today his campaign raised $32.5 million in the past three months, the largest quarterly sum ever for any Democrat in a pre-election year.
More than 154,000 donors contributed to the Illinois senator’s campaign in the second quarter.
Hillary Clinton has yet to announce her second-quarter tally; her campaign has indicated an […]
ellaella on Jul 1st, 2007Oh, Canada!
To my Canadian friends — Happy Canada Day.   Bonne Fête du Canada!
ellaella on Jul 1st, 2007Cartoon of the week - 7/1
Perhaps it was only a matter of time, but Republican Senate support for Bush’s war policies began to erode this week. It reminded me, albeit in a much less dramatic way, of Richard Nixon’s crumbling support among GOP senators in the summer of 1974.
With Independence Day imminent, Jimmy Margulies nailed it in the New Jersey Record […]
ellaella on Jul 1st, 2007Quote of the month - June
Has everyone recovered from the final episode of The Sopranos? I haven’t seen such a public outcry since Bobby Ewing showed up in the shower to let us know it was all a dream.
I think nobody put it better than David Bianculli in the New York Daily News:
The Sopranos didn’t end. It just stopped.
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