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Halloween Prep Work

Oct 30th

“It recently came to my attention that the Vietnamese...”
— Emily Garber on Pho,...

Oct 30th

Boo-kies [or Multi-Use Chocolate...

In the spirit of Halloween, I used a simple chocolate cookie recipe and turned them to two types...

Oct 30th

Children of the Corn[Muffins]

I love a good play on words. They’re really just basic corn muffins but they’re more fun...

Oct 30th

(photo via Flickr user Judy; she has a lot of other great...

Oct 29th

(Photo via LIFE) I want a huge canvas and just sprinkle...

Oct 29th

Typography! Called Virtureal, the research project...

Oct 28th

Some good advice from The How Not To Cook Cookbook.

Oct 28th

Want: Green Tea Hot Toddy

I saw this featured on Liquorious and I decided that I want to make this Green Tea Hot Toddy...

Oct 28th

Halloween is approaching and I figured it would be...

Oct 28th

Spotted: Creepy doll in Williamsburg.

Oct 28th

Tuesday, 6:30pm. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Scuttlebutt...

Oct 27th

Peppy People Cupcakes

Cupcakes, with the power of coffee, masked as cute cupcakes. The Stephanie Cupcake differs from this...

Oct 27th

Tuesday, 3:30pm. Murray Hill, New York City. Dipping...

Oct 27th

How is a Macrobiotic diet different from a Vegan one? And...

Oct 27th

Colorful Sugar Cookies

I made these cookies for my friend’s Girls’ Non-Sleepover Sleepover (I always wonder...

Oct 26th

One of my favorite things: Sprinkles!!! (….to dress-up...

Oct 26th

Sunday, 11:30pm. East Village, New York City. Girls’...

Oct 26th

Sunday, 5:30pm. Gramercy, New York City. Coffee and English...

Oct 26th

Gray Sundays…but its only gray because it’s a...

Oct 25th

Subtle Green Saturdays. Photos via vi.sualize.us and this...

Oct 24th

Friday, 7:30pm. Murray Hill, New York City. Instead of going...

Oct 24th

Easy n' Risky Chocolate Glazed Rum...

I love alcohol…in cakes. It’s great to bake this in the fall or when it starts to get...

Oct 24th

The Great Fall Tragedy of 2009

Last night, I was planning on making a pumpkin pudding and I didn’t think that the pumpkin...

Oct 23rd

Lavender Friday photography; photos by Amanda Gilligan, Ines...

Oct 23rd

There’s a wonderful typography collection site that I...

Oct 23rd

Pumpkin Thursday! I’ve decided that I’m going to...

Oct 22nd

I love infographs especially when it’s a visual...

Oct 22nd

Spicy Spinach Stracciatella

I saw a great recipe from an old issue of Gourmet (RIP) from three years ago and I decided to make...

Oct 22nd

Pink Wednesday! I had to think about what day of the week it...

Oct 21st

Link: Calculate Your Food [Carbon] Footprint

Oct 21st

Things that I Love: Things I Still Love

Schiller’s Our secret hang-out place Baking Birthdays — especially mine which is...

Oct 20th

Things that I Hate: Things I Still Hate

This girl: Teeth + Face = Mess. Harem pants: MC Hammer went bankrupt in the 90’s....

Oct 20th

Arthur Elgort.

Oct 20th

(illustration via) Happy Birthday Pattycakes!

Oct 20th

This brownish color is the “color of art”, also...

Oct 19th

Savory Biscuits

This morning I told Chef I wanted to bake today. You can really tell that he’s getting tired...

Oct 19th

Sunday, 2:30pm. Murray Hill, New York City. Best breakfast...

Oct 19th

Friday, 7:00 pm. Flatiron, New York City. All hands!...

Oct 17th

Little Paper Planes has a wonderful collection of prints...

Oct 16th

WANT! (photo via) Numbered teacups reminds me of Friends...

Oct 16th

Swirly Nutella Loaf

A Nutella loaf…I mean, cake! I’m glad I decided to bake this today. The rain had ruined...

Oct 16th

Thursday, 10:38pm. Murray Hill, New York City. One of my...

Oct 16th

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not...”
— from the original Winnie the...

Oct 15th

Wednesday, 9:00am. Eden Prairie, Minnesota. My dad sent me...

Oct 14th

Someone wrote a Thumb War book! [1, 2, 3, 4…I de-clare...

Oct 14th

A great picture to brighten your Wednesday morning:...

Oct 14th

Wonderful pastel inspired photography by Cassia Beck.

Oct 13th

Link: Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil...

Oct 13th

Not Until I'm 30 Probably

Dad: poor baby are you sick?
me: just nausea. I already talked to mom
me: Grandchild.
me: JUST KIDDING.
me: Did you fall off your chair? I was hoping. It would be funny.
[Five minute delay]
Dad: Almost.

Oct 13th

From Core 77, a design site: For 100 days (October 30,...

Oct 12th

So why is Columbus Day a holiday besides all the shopping...

Oct 12th

(illustration via)

Oct 11th

Apple Tart with a Simple Rum Sauce

I’m at home, not feeling so hot. The smell of cinnamon is really soothing to me because it...

Oct 10th

Sha Hwang, from Stamen Design, has recently created a...

Oct 9th

Irving Penn.

Oct 9th

Link: What Color Is the Empire State...

Oct 8th

Thursday, 9:00am. Greenwich Village, New York City. And now...

Oct 8th

Corn Cornbread Bread

…now quickly say the name of my recipe ten times! This cornbread is pretty easy to bake. I took a...

Oct 8th

Link: Sandwich Calculator

Oct 7th

The Palette Generator. It’s a fun tool to use if...

Oct 7th

Monday, 12:30pm. East Village, New York City. The agrarian...

Oct 6th

Simply Breakfast is a breakfast photo blog by Jennifer...

Oct 5th

Research Ideas

Something that I was thinking about over the weekend, but a potential paper topic proposal. I still...

Oct 5th

My mom will learn childish emotes but...

(on GChat) Mom: ^=^ me: How do you know how to make those faces Mom: I can make a lot of faces. me:...

Oct 5th

Oct 4th

Sunday, 11:00am. Lower East Side, New York City. Breakfast...

Oct 4th

Cherry Almond Coffee[less] Cake

We made this for our home cooked brunch in Steph’s Brooklyn apartment with a normal sized...

Oct 4th

Saturday, 4:00pm. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A portrait of...

Oct 3rd

Saturday, 1:30pm. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We made brunch by...

Oct 3rd

Saturday, 12:00pm. Murray Hill, New York City. Today is the...

Oct 3rd

Friday, 9:21pm. Murray Hill, New York City. I’m...

Oct 3rd

Want: Chopstick-Spoon = Chopspoon?

“Hybrid chopsticks designed by Aïssa Logerot. The first set is a hybrid with a spoon while...

Oct 2nd

Thursday, 8:00pm. West Village, New York City. The...

Oct 2nd

“Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn-based artist who is...

Oct 1st

Do Not Want: Spam Cinnabun

See the recipe at Houston’s My Table Magazine.

Oct 1st

Want: Cookie Dough

Vegan cookie dough! Bake it or eat it. (via)

Oct 1st

Oct 1st

Remember the 1989

Remember the Tankman of Tiananmen Square? Here are perspectives from four photographers…(from...

Oct 1st