Dame Lucy & I did our first festival last week, and boy did we not know what we were getting into.  We had some major stumbling blocks.
1) We were making iced toddy for the first time and didn’t know what our yield would be.  For the coffee-curious, iced toddy is cold brewed iced coffee which [...]

I was standing on the porch talking to my Mom on the phone last Wednesday
when she told me she was going to a Seder, which is the Passover dinner.  Imagine my shock!  As a lonely, lonely Jew in Texas, these holidays always get me by surprise.  And that’s the worst thing because Passover is the [...]

It’s SXSW, and the city is abuzz as I pull into the lot at Torchy’s Tacos.  I park my car up against a hay bale and step into the Texas sun.  We’ve been trying to put this lunch together for weeks, and finally here we are, about to savor what are arguably the best tacos [...]

In January I moved into an apartment at 32nd and Guadalupe, a little two story corner home, built in the 1920s and amended by a few additions since then. At one point it seems that the owners attempted to turn it into a duplex by adding washer and dryer hook ups and a “door to [...]