Nancy Yos
- Location
- Lansing, Illinois,
- Birthday
- March 09
- Bio
- Google me
...and you'll find there are actually two Nancy Yos-es (Yos-i?). Kind of odd. I'm not the one who writes feminist things for the Oprah website, bless her heart. If you keep Googling, you'll find me in a few, a very few back issues of Commentary, First Things, and American Heritage, and in The Times of Northwest Indiana, The Shopper, The Southtown Star, and in a lovely, now-defunct magazine called Violet, which used to be run by jazz musician Charles Mingus' daughter Keki. Then I tried blogging. (Mom said I should.) I have five. Sometimes I cross-post to Chef's Blade and FoodBuzz, and I write at Helium. Find me at eHow, too, and I am the Chicago Baking Examiner for Examiner dot com. And oh, in between times, I got a job at a (now defunct) wine shop. That was fun. And, like geeky Miles in Sideways, ... I find lately I'm really getting into rieslings.
MY RECENT POSTS
- "Thou knowest"
October 26, 2009 10:42AM - Review: The Weapon Shops of
Isher by A.E. van Vogt
August 31, 2009 09:57AM - Political rally
August 24, 2009 10:23AM - Departing storm
August 21, 2009 10:44AM - Sex and the Helium marketplace
August 17, 2009 09:57AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Cindy. I
actually don't cross-post here
too often; my
"real"
bl…”
October 26, 2009 09:19PM - “He is good (Steve, you
and I should have our own OS
website.
I do believe
you're…”
August 26, 2009 08:08AM - “I gather the gals are
making a second movie. Sex and
the
Paramedics.”
August 18, 2009 08:19AM - “And all this leads to
the spooky question: why is so
much fun
stuff in Iowa?”
August 14, 2009 08:16AM - “Yes, but first you have
to want to be rescued. And why
would
anyone? Besides,
see…”
August 13, 2009 06:53PM
"The Tholian Web." "The Gamesters of Triskelion." "Amok
Time."
Star Trek first aired when I was a toddler, so I missed it
then, but I know I grew up with the famed reruns saturating the
very air around me, because episode titles like the ones above are
as familiar to me as… Read full post »
Another library book sale treasure, picked up for one dollar
about a year ago, was this, published by Houghton Mifflin in
1958:
It is the "companion volume" to Thoughts for Food, which I
have not yet been lucky enough to find. Thoughts for
Buffets, however, must have been popular, as the librar… Read full post »
One would think the combination of white bread, cheddar cheese, and canned mushrooms would be positively ghastly -- that to a refined mind it would shriek "bourgeois 1950s glop" right there on the plate. It does holler 1950s, but having tried it and gussied it up just a little, I can… Read full post »
These are actually "Porcupine meat balls," but the
other sounds so much more fun.
The recipe comes from an old classic of American cookery, the famed
Settlement Cookbook. I had always wanted to have a look at
this, and a few months ago I found the 1976 revised edition at a
library… Read full post »
These boules de picolat, or Roussillon-style meatballs, come from one of the most splendid cookbooks one could hope to find, Clifford Wright's A Mediterranean Feast (William Morrow, 2001). History, recipes, personal anecdote, historical anecdote, maps, illustrations from medieval and Renaissance art… Read full post »
Let's pretend I'm a teacher, and I'm giving you a pop quiz to
start the new year off right. One question, multiple choice.
Choose the phrase that best defines "vintage" in wine:
a. "This is really old"
b. "This is really rare"
c. "A panel of experts agreed this is very good"
d. "The weather was… Read full post »
Chateau Gauthier Medoc 2005, Mme Courrian Christine,
Proprietaire. My notes say: cabernet - merlot - petit verdot;
red apples (apple skin); rich, smoky (a little);
fruit; !!!According to an article written by Robert Parker in September 2006 for Food & Wine, the greatness of the 2005 vinta/…
One of my favorite recipes comes originally from Claudia Roden's
Book of Jewish Food. It is called poulet aux olives,
and involves the braising of chicken pieces in olive oil, followed
by the addition of onions, garlic, ginger, parsley, tomatoes, lemon
juice, and finally blanched olives. As th… Read full post »
Romance fiction is a billion-dollar-a-year plus industry; over one-quarter of all books sold in the United States are romance novels. Although the romance publishing market seems to be uniquely open to novice writers -- the one market left whose writers need not have a marketable persona themselves,… Read full post »
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