Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

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 [...]

Fish She Is Very Small

Too good not to share: I found this in my iPhoto today. Some friends and I bought, and ate, these petits poissons in Montréal a couple of years ago. They were very small!

Image of the Day

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

Union Square Greenmarket, October 24

I’m endorsing Obama endorsing arugula.

No Parking

Another Greenpoint sign. On a construction site at Driggs and McGuinness Blvd.

Moto Guzzi @ Matchless

Signs have been speaking to me recently. Here’s the Moto Guzzi logo painted onto the outer wall at Matchless . Left over from its days as a real machine shop, I think.

Die, Yuppie Scum

Here’s a motto I haven’t seen in a while.
Hand-lettered posterboard on a phone booth on Avenue A, near 9th Street, Manhattan. A nice, warm July night, walking past the new, happy, safer Tompkins Square Park.
Update: It seems like the sign could have been a leftover from John Penley’s “Die, Yuppie Scum” rally in the East [...]