July 2009 Summer in Pittsburgh is Peach Season! The farmer's markets abound with sweet, juicy, vibrant peaches. Almost any summer day is an occasion enough for peach tartelettes, but this…
June 2009 I really was going to leave, I swear! I threw a party for the occasion. It was a party complete with folk music, Afro-Carribbean drummers, DJ Atila the…
June 2009 In between baking shifts, early, early, early morning shifts filling wholesale orders and running the retail side of the bakery, my boss at Allegro Hearth Bakery asked if…
April 2009 Back when the leaves were still changing in 2007, I went to Washington D.C. to visit a bit of French turf on American soil and eat turkey with…
April 2009 I will forever be grateful to This American Life. As I podcasted and knit my way through the extra weeks of winter, Ira Glass introduced me to David…
February 2009 Six More Weeks of…? I had never conceived of coming to this place. I was aware of the event but not of its spectators. Maybe because my mother’s…
February 2009 It feels like a holiday but without the closure of an established greeting. There’s an acknowledged sentiment after a transaction of twenty-four cracked-wheat rolls, twenty-four Kaiser rolls and…
January 2009 This is Ken. I met Ken at a party at 239 Brown Street in Philadelphia, or if you recall, what I like to call "Quelcadelphia!" I only knew…