I needn't bemoan to you about the terrific heat wave we had here this week. Plenty of you felt the stifling temperatures in your own towns. Double-, triple-shower days anyone? I made sure dinner would not kill the cook with too much kitchen heat and, wouldn't you know, our Pineapple Chicken Fajitas brought on a terrific, cooling thunderstorm. Find the recipe here and [...]
You could call this week’s book “opposition research.” I don’t like the author or his politics, but the remarkable thing about Ezekiel Emanuel as portrayed in his book, The Brothers Emanuel, is the sheer weight of accomplishment between all these brothers. How many families do you know in whom every member has risen to the top of their profession? Ari is a high-powered Hollywood agent. Rahm is [...]
We’ll get right to the point: Ann Hood’s The Obituary Writer seemed like a good idea. It wasn’t. Obituaries are my guilty pleasure. I hear they are the grunt work of newspaper writing, but it’s grunt work I might just like to try. Except for coming up with adjectives to describe all the relatives. “Fond aunt of . . . . Loving grandmother of . [...]
