five good things
1. An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler, the subtitle of which is “cooking with economy and grace” and which I am OBSESSED with. It’s not quite a cookbook and not quite essays, but more like a fairy princess of food and cooking whispering gently and lovingly over your shoulder as you stare into your fridge. There’s a whole chapter about beans! I’m not explaining it right but it’s an effing revelation. I’m getting it for all of you for your birthdays.
2. The other morning I felt like I needed a treat so I went and got a whole milk cappuccino at the hipster place near work where they make a cup of coffee at approximately the same pace that Mr. Bean wraps that present in Love Actually. Recently I switched to whole milk because I read it was easier on your stomach, and I don’t know if that’s true yet exactly but I do know that this was kind of the sexiest cappuccino of my life in spite of the fact that I drank it at my desk at 9:15 on a Tuesday.
3. Do you know about the wet brush? Lisa B taught me about it because she knows about everything that is useful and good, and at first I doubted her because I have broken the handle off MANY A HAIRBRUSH like some kind of cartoon character on account of having the world’s knottiest hair, BUT: it is amazing. I’ve been using it for a year now, and while those little plasticky bits on the bristles were in fact no match for my giant snarls (two of which my mom had to have cut out of my head by a professional as a child) it is a game-changer nevertheless.
4. Shameless this season, which has been great and funny and sad. I love that Fiona is actively trying to make different kinds of choices. I loved the moment when Mickey identified himself as Ian’s boyfriend at the psych ward. And I love everything about that kid who plays Lip, who I always thought would make kind of a perfect Sawyer LeGrande.
5. I saw Roxane Gay read at Emerson last night. It was kind of religious. Also, it was nice to be home.