I am an annoyingly stereotypical Baby Boomer (though I hate the phrase.) I am white, well-educated and live in a blue state. Later this year I will enter my seventh decade. And I am having cultural whiplash to the late 60’s when my political sensibilities were formed. The vision of…

An International Cooking Contest for a Far-Flung Family, Undaunted (so far) by the Quarantine When Do We Eat? It’s Tuesday afternoon and I am biting my cuticles, waiting for my little cousin Josh in Hawaii to pick the ingredient for the Cousins What’s App Cooking Challenge of the week. It is week six. My…

Is it just me? Or did everyone else’s phone stop ringing about two weeks ago too? For the first burst of the Corona Quarantine everyone was on the phone, checking in, “How are you guys?” “Everyone ok at your house?” Posting cheerful things on Facebook. Recipes. Funny photos with masks on Twitter. Trump jokes…

Covid Cooking. Week 286. Just kidding. Hi to all you bright and eager cooks! I salute you! I am a little/a lot less eager a cook than I was all the way through Week 122. My happy energy for new first-ever Louisa projects, using real recipes from real books began to wane about the time my basil seeds…

Penthouse Lemon Cheesecake with a Zweiback Crust I first got this luscious, sinful, lemon cheesecake recipe from a Wellesley College friend, Judy Wagoner. She was from Jackson, Mississippi and it came from a community cookbook of church ladies. She showed me the way. At that point, I could barely cook at all. Let alone separate all these…

So, is this week 24 of the Corona Virus lockdown? Or week 25? I get confused somedays. It’s a failing. Today is a Wednesday and my trash guy always comes on Wednesdays. So that is one fixed point. On the other hand, he came super early and I missed putting…

It’s Time to put away childish things. We have outgrown the term Baby Boomers. It’s way past its sell-by date. All 73 million of us. We have to give it up and so do the demographers, the journalists, and the sociologists. There is nothing baby-ish about us anymore.

Right now, there is absolutely no good way for me to volunteer on the front lines of the Corona virus outbreak. And it is killing me. There is real need out there, and even more real terror, and I am not doing much to mitigate or help. I’m not a…

Your Waste Not, Want Not Rule turns out to be tre