We hosted a fun event for a great cause this week, and I wanted to share the photos with you.
Design by Remy Sisk.
Some friends of mine run KAAC, a small charity that uses volunteer-based community theatre productions to fight pediatric cancer. They celebrated their 15th birthday with us! Photos of the event after the jump. Continue reading
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Again, with these kinda brutal weeks. Is Mercury in retrograde or something?
Joking. Not joking. Totally kidding. But really. What. Is. The. Deal.
I feel I’ve earned a glass or three of the 2011 La Fiera Montepulciano D’Abruzzo. You have, too.
Bonus: You get to look at my Junior League cookbooks.
So, it’s my impression that Abruzzo, a region of Italy, is known for producing cheap wines. The quality has dramatically improved over the last ten years, but the prices remain the same, so “d’Abruzzo” is a good code word for “not at all bad for rock-bottom prices.” For $7.50, I walked out of my new favorite wineshop, Greenhaus, with a new lease on life. It does every last thing you want your table wine to do:
Check, check, check, and check. This is a light-bodied, warm, fruity, big wine that doesn’t waste a lot of time with subtly. The sour cherries are right out there in front, and you know what? I like that. This isn’t the fanciest wine, but it’s the best thing ever for a weeknight dinner.
And you can drink the whole bottle and be out less than the cost of a draft beer at some of the nicer places.
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If someone were to present me with this, I’m not sure if I would be excited, terrified, freaked out, or hungry, but I’m completely willing to find out.
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As I mentioned the other day, I got to head out to Fox Hollow Farm for a few hours this weekend to provide food and teas for their Barefoot Farmer lecture and square dance. I didn’t get a chance to hear … Continue reading
I’m a little too young to have watched Julia Child do her French Chef on PBS. I am actually too young to have watched the French Chef on SNL. My mom always had a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but other than that, I was not very aware of the canon of American cookery. My mom was was and is a very good cook, but we lived in midsized cities in the 90s, so it wasn’t like Alice Waters was opening restaurants in our neighborhoods.
But I ended up getting my master’s degree in foodways, and these names became my life. The United States of Arugula is a family album of sorts that brings together all these biographies and styles and shows you how they fit together to inform each others’ recipes and restaurants.
David Kamp has written a lot of books about popular culture (food, wine, rock music), and he has a very direct way of saying what he thinks. I kind of liked that with The Rock Snob’s Dictionary, but…okay, we’ll get back to that.
What’s cool about Arugula is spelled out in the first pages of the preface, namely that the last forty or so years have been a sea change in the way Americans eat. I can vouch for that: people are more interested in knowing where you source your sorrel than they were five years ago. People know what sorrel is, which was not the case five years ago. My mom has a friend whose grandfather introduced broccoli to America. Let me run that by you again: no one was eating broccoli in 1925 in America. It was not something available for purchase. Isn’t that wild?
Surely you’ve seen this by now, but if not, go read it. No one is allowed to make fun of me anymore for not eating things that come in packages.
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Last night, I had the privilege of providing food for my friends at the Dixie Design Collective. They have a new office at The Pointe in Butchertown, and it. is. jaw-dropping. These ladies are designers and hardcore DIYers, so this is all their own personal doing. That boggles the mind.
I want to move in here.
The whole space is perfect and beautiful, as one might anticipate the office of Louisville’s best stylists might be, and all the partygoers were the nicest of well-wishers. I met wedding planners, photographers, painters, creative directors, florists, designers, you name it. Everyone was really excited to see these nice people have such success.
I can’t take credit for those AMAZING cupcakes. Those were allll Stellar Sweets.
If you’d like to see more photos and some links to their effortless, classy, fun work, follow me to the place that the intertrons take you after the jump.
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