Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

Really Enjoying, 1.18

I am really enjoying:
• Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of U.S. Representative Barney Frank in the current New Yorker
• Matt Taibbi’s takedown of Thomas Friedman in the New York Press, and the accompanying cartoon strip by David Rees (of ‘Get Your War On’ fame). A sampling:
“Approach-and-rhetoric wise, however, it’s the same old Friedman, a tireless social scientist whose [...]

Week 6: Cultural Events

This idea of blogging each week, á la my first blog, has really gotten away from me. Let me try to bring it back.
About a month ago, I decided to start going to more cultural events. I’d gotten to feeling like a real freelance hermit, like I wasn’t meeting any new people, like I wasn’t [...]

Adieu, Holidays

Window @ Bergdorf Goodman, 12/24/08

Sweet, Peppery, Cabbagey, Wintry

Cabbage With Apples
~adapted from How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman

2 tablespoons butter
one small/medium green cabbage
two apples
dash of cloves
half a cup of stock or white wine
a teaspoon of cherry jam
s & p
fresh lemon juice
Chop the cabbage and the apples into pieces that you like.
Melt the butter, add the cabbage, apples, and cloves; cook, stirring, for [...]