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

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Letter from Charlottesville

Earlier this week I sent off two chapter drafts, and since then I’ve been taking a little elusive ‘me-time.’ Actually, I was supposed to get back to work this morning, but I’ve been feeling an itch lately to blog. I don’t know why. Is it an itch to remember how to write something that is [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Oh, February (A Coq au Vin Recipe)

How I’m getting through what’s left of winter: Weeknight Coq Au Vin (There’s a chicken thigh hiding in there) six pieces of chicken (I used legs and thighs), bones in and skin on one-third bottle red wine one package of mushrooms, cremini or white one medium to large onion third to half a (small) can [...]


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