One phrase I never want to hear again is "We asked Lindsey Graham About His Bubble Wand".

Dinner. Linguine with pistachio cream, peas and ricotta.

The administration’s order to remove the Pride flag in February from the monument, which is in Greenwich Village, drew fierce backlash from L.G.B.T.Q. people across the country ..., who saw it as an attack on the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

Call 202-224-3121 and ask Trump's Republican co-conspirators that question. Without their willingness to enable the Trump crime spree, he would not be able to rip us off, or get away with raping children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

It’s pouring rain in SF which just means it’s an excuse to bake cookies and put them on a pretty plate because it’s time to use the pretty plates for no better reason than cookies while watching the rain and lightning and thunder. It’s also a good day for run on sentences.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Dinner. Moro bean stew with tomato rice and a quick tossed salad.

Moro beans from Rancho Gordo about to join some mire poix that’s simmering in the pot with a smoked ham hock. We’re just going to let them get acquainted for a few hours and then make some cornbread and maybe some tomato rice.

Watching the NASA livestream at my desk. Everything is on hold while they're waiting for Artemis to return to signal. It's thrilling to know humans are currently on the other side of the moon.

Good morning.

Happy #Caturday from this lovely bookstore owner I saw in New Orleans last week.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Good morning

A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

Picked the first batch of strawberries. I probably spent 100x the amount of money these are worth on chicken wire and cages and other "anti-squirell" prevention techniques, but the satisfaction I'm getting from having grown them is worth it.

I have a meeting today that requires a suit. I haven't worn one in ages and I'm barely able to get into this.

We’ve all seen the contestants on GBBO make hot water crust. I realized that I had never made it so I gave it a shot today. It’s as finicky as they say. Filled mine with beef, mushrooms & carrots & flavored with miso. It’s a dense crust that I can see its roots in hand pies & I want to try again

I have had this boss LOL #chef #kitchens #cats #dogs lol Love the Squirrel dishwasher to much lol

The rich are getting even richer in America, & in the Hamptons, where home prices have hit record highs, the wealthy want workers who can trim the hedges, clean the pools & tidy the guesthouses & outsourcing much or all of the cooking has become a staple in the area www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/n...

Sitting in the backyard studying under the camelia tree.

I have a crazy way of reporting on 'No Kings' that's different from the NYT...I go out and talk to protesters about what they think Sure, size matters, but so does the passion of a movement offering the 4-letter word that beats back dictators Hope My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Friends in or familiar with Ireland. My family and I will be in Galway on May 12th and 13th and then in Dublin on May 15th and I'm looking for suggestions for a nice dinner in both cities.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

No Kings San Francisco

Mary I, Queen of England Antonis Mor ~1554

“I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.” — William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court justice

I planted this rose bush two years and its about to be covered in itty bitty pink blossoms for the first time. Patience in the garden gets rewarded.

Restaurants and bars are among the most important elements to consider when conceiving a new development, Mr. Volkman said, because they serve as gathering spaces and provide “the energy and vitality” that successful communities need. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/r...

The crow are back pulling apart the netting that I set up to... well... deter the crows.

Every time I hear about alpha-gal syndrome I think it's a bunch of republican chicks with inferiority issues.

Update from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport📍 As the partial U.S. government shutdown continues and TSA agents are still working without pay, lines at some airport security checkpoints are much longer than usual. At MSY in New Orleans, wait times reached several hours. (1/2)

They've finally figured out my esthetic.

Making dinner. Not really authentic but it’s using up some stuff. Also? I’ll never get used to what my voice really sounds like.

Sometimes I watch @americastestkitchen.com demos and I wonder how often the presenters have to have their wedding/engagement rings professionally cleaned.

Black garbanzos from @ranchogordo.bsky.social - Thinking about a tagine for dinner.

Getting caught up on updating my cookbook catalogs. It’s going slowly because I keep stopping to read and finding something that makes me laugh or makes me learn something new or brings back a memory. I don’t collect them just for the recipes. I collect them because they make my soul sing.

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

I eat lunch at my desk out of plastic containers most of the time. It feels like I can do better so i try to elevate what I bring. Mixed greens and veg with croutons. I had half a jar of tuna in oil ti which I added lemon juice and used as a dressing.

Dinner. Whole wheat spaghetti with radicchio, shallots and tuna topped with gremoulata

Rushed home for a meeting that got postponed to Friday. Fine. Be that way. I'll just have to sit on the backyard in the sun and think very hard about it.

My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/kitchenb...

"Toward Los Angeles." Dorothea Lange 1937

In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

From Le Monde Illustré August 1867 - M. Trottier’s (manufacturer of molds/pans for desserts and tiered cakes…among other pastry utensils) stand at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Stupendous finds today while doing my research!

Dinner for one tonight. Mushroom and parm galette.