Author Archive: Emilie

For The Love of Potatoes “You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto. Let’s call the whole thing off.” — George and Ira Gershwin I never intended to start a…
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Strawberry Dreams   Strawberries, Strawberries, tumbling down. Strawberries, Strawberries, all here around. Rosy and blushing, enormous or small, Our fingers turn pink as we gather them all. One for the bucket and one for the tongue. Bushels are gathered before…
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Craigslist Capers One of the most interesting jobs I ever had was working for a custom table and furniture making company in Tennessee.  I was the only woman at the company, and all of the guys treated me like their…
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What Type of Cookware Should I Buy?   When I first started cooking on my own I had a nice, ahem, variety (read: horribly mismatched ménage) of pans in my kitchen.  I didn’t know what most of them were– they…
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The Perfect Steak It all started one fine summer evening.  The sun was going down, bathing the world in that golden, perfect so-late-I-can’t-believe-it’s-still-light-out glow.  I took a walk and smelled . . . it. It was a scent so mouth…
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Blue Evening Supper’s coming on. Praying.  Passing.  The clinking of silverware.  Grateful scraping on plates.  Sliding of chairs. Dishwater so hot it steams in the last rays of sun.  Everyone helps. 5:30. Unbraiding of hair.  Filling the wicker laundry basket…
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Present Moments I’m not really sure the day that I noticed it.  It came on pretty gradually.  But if I had to guess, I would say that I noticed it the day that the rose fell. It was just an…
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