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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

Everything’s Coming Up Budget Recipes! Volume I: Caribbean Vegetable Stew Edition.

Dinner. Every fall, I become obsessed with food and eating. This fall, the world being what it is, I’m becoming obsessed with food and eating on a budget. And, as I discovered last time, I am not alone! The New York Times recently did a story on the One Dollar Diet Project blog, in which [...]


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8 November 2008 @ 4pm

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Perhaps You Were Thinking of Spending Thousands of Dollars on a Gift For Me?

Might I ask you to consider this painting by Jocelyn Hobbie, which Tim says reminds him of me? It’s even called “The Writer.” She even has nice hands. Who sat for this painting? I like it. It’s airy, yet slightly sinister. I want a pony.


Yes, Please Tax Our Bags

Three cheers for Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to charge six cents for every plastic shopping bag given out in the city. Even (especially?) if it drives down plastic bag use rather than raising a lot of money for the city, it will still be a big victory in my opinion. I’ve always been appalled by NYC’s [...]


Our President.

The presidential election feels too momentous and deserving of quality to quickly write anything about, and yet, it feels too momentous and deserving of attention to put off trumpeting. So, because I don’t have time to write more than quickly, a few elliptical thoughts about our new leader…the first in my adult life about whom [...]


Cheap Food Links: Eating in a Recession

Lately I’ve been thinking about the recession w/r/t eating. Suddenly, my attempts to save money on food via homemade Cute Dinners are positively de rigeur. I have been wondering who’s blogging about consumption habits in the new economy, especially of food. The Times ran a piece a few days ago about The Recessionista blog, but [...]


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