“Quelcy, Like the Pretzel”
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…
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January 8, 2011
25 Years, 25 Cakes
January 2009 When I was younger and my birthday rolled around, one of my favorite treats to bring to school was self-filled cupcakes. Back then, my mom made them for…
January 7, 2011
Bakeries, Cafes & Restaurants / Breads, Crackers & Rolls / Breakfast & Brunch / Dessert / Wanderings
En Parlant de Paris…
I've mentioned it here and there, but Paris is worth a more significant stroll down memory lane. I spent six months there in 2008 and a few other short visits,…
January 3, 2011
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
October 2008 My roommate had been preparing for a community review of her urban planning proposal. The class had been assigned an impoverished neighborhood of Pittsburgh as their site for…
November 28, 2010
Grab Dessert By The Horns
October 2008 There was a professor who had a Dodge, and that Dodge was well known around the Architecture school. There was a student of the Dodge professor who liked…
November 28, 2010
Thou Shall Bring Cake
September 2008 For years now, I have lamented my musical memory. I have a hard enough time keeping band names in my head but associating them to randomly playing songs? …
November 28, 2010
Plum Crazy Cake
September 2008 Gravity had been pulling me into friendships with boys. I say “boys” in keeping with my older sister's claim: males are not “men” until age thirty-six. It follows…
November 27, 2010
The Quelcadelphia Bank
September 2008 With social media tools such as Facebook, the concept of the yearbook will probably, if not already, become one of those relic references of the generations who will…
November 27, 2010