Christmas dinner part II: food
Since this holiday event is over a month old, I’ll keep this post sweet + short. . . . . . «This $5 sticker chalkboard helps us prepare our menu, and gives guests a chance to drool before anything hits the table. . . . . «We got this rotisserie appliance from Dan’s grandparents. With … Read more
Cheep relaunch
Welcome back to a new Cheep. I decided to start fresh, for a few reasons. First, the short and realistic one: This blog is now on WordPress, because my former Cheep site, hosted by Typepad, was beginning to show some fugly cracks. I will migrate the best posts over from the old hag, but this … Read more
Cheep backgrounder
Starting a public-facing blog begs self-examination. I think things like, “Seriously, who do you think you are? What do you know about any of this stuff? You think you’re a simulacrum of Tim Gunn and Padma Lakshmi and Anthony Bourdain and those Brits from Changing Rooms (the much better BBC precursor to Trading Spaces. And … Read more
