Nancy Yos

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.

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DECEMBER 13, 2008 11:08AM

I'm surprised it should be this

I live in the south suburbs of Chicago. I vote Republican. My representatives in Washington are Senator Dick Durbin, former Senator and now President-elect Barack Obama, and Representative Jesse Jackson III.  When I e-mailed their offices this past fall on various issues of the moment -- cap-and… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 12, 2008 12:22PM

Cute AND destructive

"When's breakfast?"

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DECEMBER 12, 2008 11:59AM

I've got your romance novel, right here

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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DECEMBER 12, 2008 9:48AM

The soldier's story

Kyle worked on the student newspaper in college and parlayed this into a full-time job as a staff writer for the local paper as soon as he graduated with his degree in Communications. After he had been hired, his first assignment was to drive down to Crown Point, Indiana, and find… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 11, 2008 2:11PM

Facing the classics: Plutarch, Life of Alexander

The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is one of those gigantic classics that you fear to approach. Who is this author, and what is he about? His book was the foundation of upper-class education from at least the Renaissance forward, it seems; I have elusive memories of reading that… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 10, 2008 11:07AM

Movies that make me want to clean my house

There's a family legend about my great-grandmother, born Mary Swan but known in adult life as Mrs. Brizzolara, which moniker the neighborhood kids could not pronounce and so she became "Mrs. B." or, to us in stories, simply Bee. The legend is that she was always Too Busy Rolling Bandages For… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 9, 2008 11:51AM

The wines of Muslim Europe?

I only visited Europe once, twenty-five years ago, and I was too young at the time to understand remotely where I was or what I was looking at. As a matter of fact I was near the German wine heartlands, but didn't know it. We all drank white wine with everything… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 9, 2008 11:42AM

The glorious Mrs. Beeton



When modern Western women complain about long-standing sexism in society, I sometimes want to lift a dubious eyebrow, and then glance meaningfully at something like Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, published in London -- apparently by the family firm, S.O. Beeton -- in 1861. A s/…

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DECEMBER 9, 2008 11:30AM

Chestnuts 101

Every autumn and holiday season, I vow that I will cook chestnuts this year. I forget why I ever got the idea. Somehow I recall reading a French cookbook, which enthused about chestnuts and made them seem glamorous and wonderful. This year became the year, because I read a post at… Read full post »

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