Melissa Hoeffner

Specialty #12: Sick Season Chicken Soup What ~can't~ a rotisserie chicken do?

It’s soup season!!!

Specialty #10: Communal Quenelles in Lyon Food bringing us together may sound trite, but it can also be true.

I wrote about hot gefilte fish!!

The way this just made me laugh.

say what you want about New York but where else in the world can you get a pint of specialty candy delivered

you think you’re well versed in queer culture and then you’re introduced to pride paella

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

what if instead of let them we give 'em the old razzle dazzle?

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

From Matzo Ball Soup to Latke Crisps, Kosher Foods Find a New Generation of Fans Jewish comfort foods are getting a glow up, thanks to a new generation of entrepreneurs intent on bringing kosher food to the masses, from Chutzpah's brisket dumplings and Schmutz's fig and pistachio ...

my latest for food & wine

No one tells you that you also become a collection agent when you become a writer. SURPRISE!

friday working conditions