Just combine all ingredients in an ice-filled glass (or mason jar) and stir!
Oooh / Lavender Vodka Tonic
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LES Sublet
I'm helping a friend sublet his 1-br, fully furnished apartment on the Lower East Side (move-in date Sept 1, $2050/month including utilities, 5 months with possibility of extension). Shoot me an email at jordan@shealuna.co for pics/more info if you're interested!
Wandering Weekend / 2 Days In Food And Other Things
What a long, wonderful, wander-y weekend this was.
Anniversaries and Extravagance
What, we need to get all trussed up and take a $20 taxi (each way) to get to some restaurant that we probably can't afford...just because? To make...a point? What point would that be, exactly? That romance is found on the face of a hundred dollar bill, or in a perfectly pressed napkin? That's not the kind of marriage - or, you know, life - that I want.
Riddle Me This…
A question for you:
I've been defrosting the lobster meat that my mom brought me from Canada in the refrigerator since yesterday afternoon, but as of this evening it was still frozen in the center (rrr...9:30PM is getting on towards no-longer-dinnertime in my world). So I put it in an ice bath, as I frequently do with stubbornly-frozen chicken breasts, but still...no cigar.
I did a bit of Google research and learned that the defrosting process works even faster if you place the lobster in an ice bath and then pour a steady stream of cold water over it, so that's what I'm doing now...and it seems to be working.
So my question: Why does the cold-water-stream move things along?
Raiders of the Lost Ark…On an Aircraft Carrier. Yep.
Every summer, the Intrepid (the aircraft carrier that we visited last year on Kendrick's birthday) holds a Free Summer Movie Series, and last night Kendrick, Carla and I headed over to check out Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Obviously. Because it was Raiders of the Lost Ark. On an aircraft carrier!
Basic Napkin Folding Technique
When I worked at Upstairs at the Pudding, I folded hundreds, if not thousands, of napkins into the pyramid shape you see below. And now I'm here to impart all that valuable knowledge to you. Psyched?! Thought so.
Reader Question / Guest Etiquette
Dear Jordan,
Since I'm so new to the concept of entertaining, I wanted to get your opinion on dinner party etiquette: Am I unreasonable to feel annoyed by (close) friends that show up empty handed and don't offer to help clear/do dishes? Or am I, as the host, expected to cover such things?
What I Wouldn’t Give To Meet This Man
"I was working a lunch counter on Columbus Avenue. It was a 'transitional' phase in my career, meaning I was transitioning from heroin to crack, and I was wearing a snap-front, white polyester dishwasher shirt with the name of the linen service over the left breast pocket, and dirty blue jeans. I was cooking pancakes. And eggs fucking Benedict - the English muffins toasted under the salamander on one side only, half-assed, 'cause I just didn't care...I could make any kind of omelet with the fillings available, and the people who sat at my counter and placed their orders looked right through me. Which was good, because if they really saw me, really looked into my eyes, they'd see a guy who - every time somebody ordered a waffle - wanted nothing more than to reach forward, grab them by the hair, and drag a dirty and not particularly sharp knife across their throat before pressing their face into the completely fucked-up, always-sticky waffle iron. If the fucking thing worked anywhere near as inefficiently as it did with waffles, their face would later have to be pried off with a butter knife."
- Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw
Meal-In-A-Jar!
The article suggests using canning jars to transport and serve up things like mac 'n' cheese, salads, puddings, and cobblers. I love the idea of creating savory trifle-type dishes by layering different, complimentary ingredients...
