A Food Blogger GIF Wall When anyone pins from this blog to Pinterest I’m like: On Fridays when I wake up and remember I’ve missed yet another French Fridays with Dorie post I’m like: When that food blogger we all know posts her avocado toast with a runny egg to Instagram again I’m like:
Merry Christmas from Sis Boom Blog
Wanted a nice car Got a purple scarf instead It’s a bonne idée! Presents under tree, Dorie and I in Paris My Christmas wish-list. then for the New Year we walk the Champs-Elysées to look at the lights What could be better? Is there anything missing? How about world peace? […]
December 25, 2013 by 11 Comments
"Best of Show" at The OC Fair!
Despite the now obviously shorter days and an avalanche of food blog posts tempting me to heat the oven to roasting temperature, I can’t enthusiastically embrace fall until I take care of some unfinished blog business. I recently entered a few blog posts in the Orange County Fair Culinary Arts food blog competitions and ended up […]
October 1, 2012 by 18 Comments
The Thing You Missed in 2011!
Like most of you today, I’m feeling somewhat reflective on the previous year. We can hardly be blamed for feeling this way since the media inundates us this week each year with year-end roundups, death lists and several other segments each designed to have us looking back to wonder how it all passed so quickly. […]
December 31, 2011 by 17 Comments
OC Fair “Personal Blog Post”
Winner: Gerard’s Tart!
I f you could get past the Ferris Wheel and assorted whirly gigs, make your way beyond the abundant a rtery-clogging food offerings (“deep fried candy bars!”) and the odorous livestock exhibits you might have eventually wandered into the considerable Culinary Arts Pavilion at the 2011 Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa, California. Among the […]
August 14, 2011 by 21 Comments
Cy Twombly: April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011
I’m sorry to interrupt your regular food programming but today I was saddened to read of artist Cy Twombly’s passing just yesterday. He has nothing to do with food but quite a lot to do with this blog. Does this piece of his entitled “Cold Stream” (from 1966) look familiar? If so you are one […]
July 7, 2011 by 3 Comments
Why Do People Bake?
No shit. I saw this postcard on postsecret.com last week. This wasn’t my card but it might as well could have been. Only I don’t pretend its a secret. In case you don’t know about Post Secret they describe themselves as “an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one […]
September 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
