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Category Archives: Holidays
King Friday
A couple of weeks ago at work, our pastry chef, Guillermo, brought up a large, round cake from the pastry kitchen downstairs. Everyone quickly descended upon it. It was devoured within minutes of its initial appearance. “Tell me if you … Continue reading
2010: The Future in a Cup of Coffee
See these Greek coffee grounds? They just told me my future. I am sitting here, wired and edgy from two cups of the stuff, trying to let my mind become open to what the residue left behind is trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Liquids
Tagged cafeomancy, coffee, coffee grounds, fortune telling, greek coffee, Greeks
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Poke the Ones You Love This Christmas.
As it turns out, Mele Kalikimaka really is the thing to say on a bright Hawai’ian Christmas Day. So, in honor of all my friends from The Islands Big and not-so-Big, I am saying “Merry Christmas” with a big bowl … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Meatness, Savories
Tagged Christmas, hawai'ian christmas, mele kalikimaka, Poke, recipe
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Glögg– A Holiday Godsend
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Every %@*&-ing where I go. The store windows, the hideous wreaths on the bumpers of SUVs, the Holiday sweaters, the music (please, God, make it stop). I’m already up to my turtleneck … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Liquids
Tagged alcohol, Christmas, cocktails, glögg, holiday spirits, recipe, swedes
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Turkey Hash: A Black Friday Breakfast
(Yes, I know it is Saturday, but this post was written yesterday for the Friday slot over at Bay Area Bites. Please suspend any sort of calendric disbelief you might harbor and stay with me…) Well Happy Black Friday, everyone, … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast Time, Holidays, Meatness
Tagged black friday, margaret o'brien, natalie wood, peggy ann garner, recipe, thank god it's friday, thanksgiving, turkey hash
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Just in Time for Halloween: The Jackie O. Lantern
A few days ago, I got an email from my editor over at KQED’s Bay Area Bites asking me if I would incorporate “in my own very special way” a Halloween theme into this week’s post. Rather than over think … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Halloween, Jackie O. Lantern, Jackie Onassis, Maria Callas, pumkins
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Kalter Hund: Spanking Fresh
Sometimes, things have a way of just happening to you. When I woke up one morning several weeks ago, I found myself looking forward to a lazy Sunday afternoon, followed by an evening of cocktails, theater, and dinner with a … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Stage, Film, and Television, Sweets and the Like
Tagged Cold Dog, dessert, Kalter Hund, recipe, spanking, whipping
10 Comments
Happy 4th: From My Village to Yours.
Where I work, there are a small handful of men who occasionally begin their sentences with the phrase “In my village…”
“In my village, we have a festival.” “In my village, we would never treat an octopus in such a way.”
These men can get away with saying such things as easily as they can get away with calling women “baby” because they are Greek. The have the accent, they have an old world charm about them that clings like the smell of clove and stale cigarette smoke.
And I have always been a little bit jealous. If I were to ever pepper my sentences with the words “In my village…” People would most likely assume it was Greenwich Village. And I can just forget about using the word “baby.” Ever. Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Savories
Tagged fourth of july, greek, in my village, karpouzi me feta, recipe, watermelon salad
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