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12 years ago @ The Toast - Why Haven't You Told M... · 0 replies · +5 points

I'll join you in the crone corner Kimberly, where we can drink together and reminisce about the days when even a broke editorial assistant (the kind whose parents were not paying her rent) could live in Manhattan. How is she out of print!?! And Bret Easton Ellis isn't? Grrr ...

12 years ago @ The Toast - Eat Me: The Little Gar... · 0 replies · +2 points

I just got my first-ever garlic harvest last week. They're drying in my sunporch strung up in bunches. I will definitely be growing twice as much next year -- it was so easy, and my garlic is so gigantic and lovely ...
My garlic recipe of choice right now is a piece of toast, rubbed with raw garlic, then soaked slightly with the last of last years canned tomatoes, topped with a big slathering of goat cheese.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Mausoleums · 0 replies · +1 points

My family actually has a mausoleum -- the ones who built the robber baron fortune are buried in it, while there's no more room for the ones who squandered said fortune.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Eat Me: Antipasta, Whe... · 0 replies · +3 points

If they're still food, saute them in the morning with a couple of scrambled eggs -- frittatas are where all leftovers wind up in my house. (If they've turned to silage though -- throw them out.)

12 years ago @ The Toast - Heaney From the Back Row · 0 replies · +2 points

The only one I remember was Nancy's Bar in Ardara. We went in at 2pm on a Thursday afternoon in December and told them who sent us. In typical fashion, they were nonplussed.
I could kill myself that the copy of Station Island in which the pubs were listed got lost in one of my fight-or-flight moves in my 20s. I swear, it was in my Aunt's house, where I was staying that summer. I still hope it'll turn up some day.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Heaney From the Back Row · 2 replies · +5 points

Way back in the dawn of time when I was an undergraduate (1984) Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane came to read at our little tiny exchange program in Dublin. They were fabulous, and hilarious, and told awful stories about one another and wrote down all the pubs we should go to in Donegal. Big love ....

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