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Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.

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Posts from November 2008

Image of the Day

Keep Calm and Carry On poster produced by the UK Ministry of Information 1939. (From AJC1 on Flickr)


Fall and Winter Budget Recipes, Volume IV: Homemade Granola on the Cheap

I just noticed another budget recipe link: the Whole Foods Budget Recipe Challenge. I think it’s pretty rich that Whole Foods, aka most expensive big chain grocery ever, is sponsoring a budget recipe challenge, but it’s their prerogative. I do find the salad bar at Whole Foods Union Square to be a guilty pleasure (financially, [...]


Product Placement: Nancy’s Plain Yogurt

Oh, Portopia. Oh, Nancy’s. Back when I lived in Portland, Oregon, when I would come back home to visit the East coast, I’d rave about Portland all the time. (‘In Portland, the farmer’s market is so great…Portland has SUCH good public transportation…this bookstore just PALES in comparison with Powell’s.’) It was sort of annoying, even [...]


David Brooks on “The Formerly Middle Class”

This is provocative: I’d been wondering whether the recession will cause people to bond more, socialize more, become less isolated. David Brooks writes in his column yesterday that he thinks, on the contrary, it will cause more anomie.


Recipes Not Required

Lunch today: Two pieces of avocado toast, and one baked sweet potato, brought to work in a tupperware container. “Your lunch smells good!,” says a lady in the cafĂ© area. Dinner last night: The thing I’m taking to calling “bistro spinach,”* a bowl of stovetop popcorn, and a bottle of ale, around 11 p.m. It [...]


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