Past posts for the 'Family and Motherhood' Category



Cooked Books

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I am, honestly, a good cook. In a past life I regularly turned out apple pies with perfect crusts, three-cheese macaroni from hand-made pasta and shortbread with my own lemon custard. Ask my husband and three-year old about my cooking, however, and they will tell you that I dial with the best of them. A few weeks ago the kid said, “Mommy, I am going to get you some dinner from my kitchen.” She dashed to her bedroom, picked up a toy phone and parroted the previous night’s dinner order, including out area code and telephone number.

Rebecca Federman’s Cooked Books, All Things Culinary at the New York Public Library, makes me want to change my wicked ways. Federman is our cookery bibliographer and her blog digs in to NYPL’s vast food collections. This fall I am going to follow her lead and make her Swiss Macaroni and Melted Gruyere and Apple Compote recipe.

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The Long Silence

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Each post this week will tell what I have been up to this last year and why there has been little time to write. Today’s reason, by far the most important, is that I had a baby girl in late September.

So David Hochman’s article in Sunday’s times gave me quite a chuckle.

Today’s parents - older, more established and socialized to voicing their emotions - may be uniquely equipped to document their children’s’ lives, but what they seem most likely to complain and marvel about is their own. The baby blog in many cases is an online shrine to parental self-absorption.

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