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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the spooky question: why is so
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August 13, 2009 06:53PM
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 »
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 »
No, they can't "marry"
Luncheon
in Fur, Meret Oppenheim, 1936. Museum of Modern Art, New
YorkWorking at a wine shop is not quite like being a bartender, but one does hear stories, and one does get a chance to observe human nature. What I notice more than anything else in my customers across the counter,… Read full post »
"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 »
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 »
From courtesan to "VeggieTales" fruit
Madame du Barry by Stanley Loomis
Madame du Barry was the last of a long line of official royal mistresses of the French kings. She followed Madame de Pompadour into the affections and the lit of King Louis XV, and lived splendidly with him at Versailles for the last six… Read full post »
Martha has had way too many cheezburgers
...but that patch of spring sunshine is really nice. What's the looming shadow? Who cares? Read full post »
Mark Twain meets Joan of Arc
Once, in a bookstore, I found a copy of the Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, and read on the back jacket flap the statement that Mark Twain considered this his best book. That's a surprise, and in the reading lists they assign and laud, it's clear college professors and other… Read full post »
Spring glories
Martha puts up with winter
Plum, the G.O.M.
When I was younger and foolisher, I read quite a bit of P.G. Wodehouse, mostly the Jeeves and Drones Club stories, and then reached a point -- and this is the "foolisher" part -- at which I felt I had read enough of him. His stories can be laugh-out-loud funny, and… Read full post »
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 »
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 »
Cream of tomato soup
This tomato soup is one of only two recipes that I have ever found useful from the great, classic Joy of Cooking, otherwise the most overrated cookbook I have ever owned, I am sorry to say; the other useful recipe is one for challah, the Jewish sabbath bread, a dense brioche… Read full post »
"Hi, Uncle Ray!"
Yesterday would have been a day on which I had lots of news for my uncle Ray. Would you believe it, I always liked to begin things, I got my one and only check from my blog's former advertising network, in the whopping amount of $27 and change, representing the farewell-and-godspeed… Read full post »
Pot roast and pinot
I discovered a new pinot noir at the grocery store which I thought was delicious, and so it became necessary to prepare a dinner to go with it.
A pot roast is one of my favorite meals. I start with a two-and-half or three-pound piece of beef chuck, and
… Read full post »If they make Kirk a frat boy ...
Tomorrow the new Star Trek movie premieres, the prequel of all prequels, in which the crew of the original series are seen in youth and all played by new young actors. I have seen the trailers on television and I'm concerned. Of course the special effects look good, but that was never… Read full post »
What is summer?
Road trip! Riverside, Iowa -- future birthplace of ...
We're going to Iowa!
It had rained the night before.
At the Great Sauk Trail rest area -- so this is still an Illinois
bug.
I-80, westbound.
Will it look the same in the 23rd century?
Summer farm fields.
Not too far across the river (there's only one) is this sign.… Read full post »
Yuh-oh. Wine with unemployment
Well, it was fun while it lasted. A charming little wine shop with a slightly cumbersome "style" categorization, a small inventory, corporate-driven, one hundred percent and beyond price markups, and no booze or beer sales to pay the rent, has sadly folded. Now I am back in the job hunt, and… Read full post »
Chocolate cake and underage cashiers
The most beautiful little package of potential pleasure the
kitchen has to offer: the square of unsweetened Baker's
chocolate.
We are lucky enough to have two winter birthdays in our house, one
in late November and one in late December. Traditionally, the
dessert of choice after birthday dinne… Read full post »
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