So now you’re starting to panic. Your heirlooms are beautifying the terrace with their kaleidoscopic red and sunny yellow palette, and your sultry cherry nubiles are infusing your studio with their eau- de- tomate scent from their window perch. So yes, you’re starting to panic. Is it time, or isn’t it? You don’t want to be plucking precious [Read more]
Archive for July, 2011
Heirlooms For You: No Rich Grandmother Needed
(image) When I was a kid, my family used to rent cleaned-up versions of hit films, and I remember watching Shakespeare in Love and being really confused because in the approximately 65-minute version I saw, Gwyneth Paltrow and Shakespeare were just friends. I watched the unedited movie years later on my own, and I was like, [Read more]
All Rise for Cherry Pie
Cherry pie needs little introduction. Simultaneously sweet and tart bursts of fruit encased in buttery, melt-in-the-mouth crust. I have made enough cherry pies in my life to feel confident calling myself something of an authority on the subject. With each one, I have tweaked, twisted and doctored the recipe inching closer and closer to cherry [Read more]
This Week in the Garden
This week, I built some trellises, planted four kinds of mint, and tried to figure out what to do with the crazy root systems of my new grape vines. My beans are reaching for the sky, my tomatoes are ripening, and my evening primroses came back after what I thought was their forever farewell. And [Read more]