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The Century Egg Experiment

March 3, 2015

This is a century egg.

It is quite literally the strangest food I have ever encountered in my life. Also called a “Hundred-Year Egg,” a “Preserved Egg,” a “Thousand-Year Egg,” and a “Horse Urine Egg” (oh yes), it's an egg that has been preserved in a mixture of clay, lime, ash, salt, and rice hulls for several months (like this).

According to legend, the Century Egg was discovered during the Ming Dynasty by a man who returned to his home, which had been under construction for several months, only to discover a few duck eggs that had been buried in quicklime. He ate them for some unknown reason and boom: tradition, born.

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DIARY

When The Kids Are Older, Maybe

March 3, 2015

I don't get to hang out with my dad enough.

He spends half his time in California for work, and so the hours we've spent together these past few years have amounted to a quick dinner here or an afternoon together there in between trips.

I'm getting older, and more and more I'm realizing that I miss the time we used to spend together, just the two of us, doing stuff that we only do with each other: taking cheese tasting classes. Riding motorcycles. Scuba diving.

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Makeup & Beauty

Skincare From A Supermodel

March 3, 2015

Please look at Christie Brinkley.

I mean, seriously.

#ageless.

So the primary question I have about Christie Brinkley’s skincare line is why it took her so long to develop one. Maybe she wanted to walk around as a living example of the spectacularness of whatever it is that she’s been doing to her face a little longer? (No real need; she convinced me that I should do whatever it is that she tells me to do about ten years ago.)

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My Looks

Zsa Zsa Zu (Or: That Time I Wore My Pink Pants To An Alleyway)

March 2, 2015

When I was trying to think of a title for this post the words "zsa zsa zu" kept popping into my head. I knew I'd heard that somewhere, but couldn't for the life of me figure out where, or what it meant. And so I googled, and oh:

Sex and the City.

For serious, is like every cultural reference available to women of my general age bracket related to Sex and the City? (I think the answer might be yes.)

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Lifestyle

Bucket List VII: Food Adventure In Queens

March 2, 2015

Oh hey there guys.

A couple of weeks ago my Instagram friend (by which I mean a person who I feel that I know extremely well because I follow her on Instagram, but whom I do not actually know at all) Alexis posted about a Northern Chinese restaurant she went to in Queens called Golden Palace. And in that post, she called it a "food adventure." So: restaurant googled; trip planned.

Northern Chinese, at it turns out, is a totally different thing than the Chinese food I'm used to (primarily Hunanese, Sichuanese, and Cantonese). It's not one of the "Eight Great Traditions" of Chinese cuisine, and is considered sort of less refined by Southerners (which apparently has more to do with political and economic differences between the regions than the quality of the actual food, because it's totally as interesting - and delicious - as what you find in neighboring areas).

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Lifestyle

Meet The Sabine

February 26, 2015

By now, you know my gorgeous, talented, wonderful BFF Francesca.

She started The Sabine with Grammy and Oscar-nominated pianist Randy Kerber, and their debut EP is out today (really - it was released, like, five minutes ago, so you're among the first on the planet to hear it). The music is sixties-inspired and cinematic, and I love it and want you to hear it, too.

Check it out on Soundcloud here.

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Decor

What’s Coming Along

February 26, 2015

I apologize for all the House Posts lately.

At the moment, houses are kind of on my mind a little more than, like…sweaters. Lipstick. Whatever.

I've been doing a lot of inventorying of our possessions these last few weeks, trying to sift through what to bring, what to sell, what to donate and what to trash, and what it comes down to is this: A move is a fantastic time to streamline and cut all the unnecessary baggage out of your life…but that's the trick, figuring out what's your "baggage" and what's just yours.

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