I start around 01:10:00 or so, but you really should watch everyone. Here’s context.
Sometimes I drink Soylent and get sad
Sometimes I host chats about holiday jolly-being
And I was delighted to be joined by Sarah LeTrent, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Ian Knauer and Thomas Pastuszak.
Sometimes I host chats about Thanksgiving angst
If we could be so kind as to overlook the fact that I look like Big Bird, and focus on my stellar panel of Sarah LeTrent, Ian Knauer and Isa Chandra Moskowitz, I’d be thrilled. Theeeenks. Also? Spatchcock.
Sometimes I chat with Sanjay Gupta about trans fats
GUPTA: Now, none of this is a done deal yet. There’s a 60-day public comment period. The FDA’s going to consider concerns, suggestions that anybody including the manufacturers might have.
But, again, this is a pretty big deal. I want to talk more about this with CNN Eatocracy managing editor Kat Kinsman.
Welcome back to the program.
KAT KINSMAN, CNN EATOCRACY: Thanks, Sanjay.
GUPTA: What are we talking about with trans fats? Which foods are the worst offenders here?
KINSMAN: Well, a lot of them are sort of your treat foods, microwave popcorn, frozen pizzas, frosting in a can, coffee creamers — they’re little things that probably don’t make up the bulk of your diet but they might make up the treat portion of your diet, except for margarine which is a fairly significant part of often a household’s cooking.
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Sometimes I just couldn’t go to school
School hurt so much, I just stopped going.
In these enlightened times, my condition would likely be swiftly identified as “school refusal behavior,” treated with care and skill and billed to my parents’ insurance under DSM-5 code 309.21: separation anxiety disorder. The root cause might be fear of academic failure, trauma associated with the location, worry over leaving a parent’s protective sphere or upset caused by unkind classmates, but the outcome is the same: It’s not that the child won’t go to school, it’s that they simply can’t.
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Sometimes I blurb books
Sometimes I get all wistful
Two decades ago, I strode out of my house and knew I’d never think of it as my home again.
I hugged my mother goodbye and climbed into the car with my dad, my tape collection and every decent piece of clothing I owned. When he made the multistate drive back from dropping me off at college, the car would be empty, and the house would, to me, no longer be our family home — just my parents’ house.
Recently, it ceased to be even that.
Read “When home is where the heart isn’t” at CNN Living and enjoy some mortifying pictures from my youth.
Sometimes I talk about messy kids in restaurants
A Feast Made for Fantasy: An invitation from Craig Claiborne
I’ve always gotten a little flummoxed when the questions arise: “If you had a time machine, where would you go?” and “If you could eat dinner with anyone in history, who would it be?”
Two birds, one stone; clearly East Hampton, New York on Saturday, September 4, 1982, with Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey. They get to select the rest of the guest list, because clearly, they are no slouches in that department.
I ran across this invitation at my favorite vintage bookstore over the weekend and purchased it with my hands shaking. Claiborne has long been my party-hosting muse. This is further affirmation.
And if I can ever get my paws on the actual menu, I may actually burst into flame — or at least host one helluva shindig.
