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In case you missed it: New York magazine on female chefs and more (including Janeane Garofalo, aw yeah). 19 November 2007 2:06 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, feminism, interviews, news, restaurants, vegetarianism, work , 1 comment so far

Woo! Two posts in one day! I’m out of control! (Although actually, this is just a cunning ploy to make up for having missed last Wednesday’s post, and as soon as you’re not looking I’ll sneakily change the date on this entry to make it look like I’m not a flaky slackerbeast, but I digress. Anyway.)

For some reason, none of the food blogs on my long-neglected Google Reader mentioned New York magazine’s October 21 piece on the city’s few female top chefs, “A Woman’s Place?”; I read about it on Salon’s Broadsheet. But whatever; I’m just glad I found it. Food (especially cooking) and gender? I accept! (more…)

Monkey Monday: now with actual monkeys!

Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen, Kathmandu, monkeys, nepal, pictures, seasonality, travel, vegetarian , add a comment

See? On the roof of the Patan Museum, even:

Monkey!  On the roof of the Patan Museum

Nepalis were always pretty entertained by how excited we Western tourists got whenever we saw monkeys, except when they were busy warning us not to get too close. Apparently monkeys have been known to snatch purses, but that’s nothing compared to the trouble caused by monkey bites, or so I’m told. (New Delhi’s monkey trouble even made the New York Times last week!) We were all pretty happy to have avoided first-hand experience of all that. Anyway, (more…)