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

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Posts Tagged Food

Just Like at the Coffee Shop (Currant-Buttermilk Scones)

I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook. When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a  job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me [...]


Hospitality

Thursday evening, 8:25 p.m. A’s beau came up from Virginia for the weekend. He is a good guest. Being a good guest is an underrated, or under-discussed, art in itself. On the table: beer cocktails, in this case Guinness with cassis lambic. Not sure it was a brilliant combination, but it’s fun to sit around [...]


Failure! (Tapioca Pudding)

Tapioca grosses a lot of people out. There are many who’ve never even tried it. Yes, it’s the same shape as that fish-bait-smelling fish roe that you get at sushi restaurants sometimes if you’re not careful. But it’s pretty benign, just round and chewy. Suspended in a creamy, delicately vanilla-flavored pudding base, I like it [...]


Sardines, Broccoli, iPhone

Quotidian lunch, extraordinary gadget: still life with broccoli, sardine toasts, New Yorker, and brand new iPhone.


Budget Recipes, Volume 6: What I Ate on My Late-Winter Vacation (Punk House Lentils)

I know five people who live in a house in West Philadelphia. One of them, I’ve known for a really long time. He told me, on behalf of all the people, that I could come down and stay in their spare room for a few days and check Philadelphia out. The house looks out over [...]


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