I’m in Chicago for a conference, a users’ group for the software that U of Wisconsin (and lots of other people) are using to deliver their online courses. As a theme, because we’re in Chicago, they’re calling it “Architects of Education”. I’ve been thinking it’s really the first non-librarian conference I’ve gone to in a […]
So I had this idea to do a series of summer dinners, featuring “the fleeting tastes of summer”. The first one was last night. It was quite pleasant – a congenial group – one of my “girls” – a young woman who lived at the co-op dorm where I was the head cook from 1981-1986, […]
I have this taste memory of some kind of prune bar that my Grandma Mollie made. We didn’t like much of her cooking, it was too different from what our mom fed us, but I loved her cheese blintzes and these bars. They were square bars that she stored in a tin, and in my […]
Tonight is our big fireworks show here in Madison – and Mark & I just decided we’re not motivated enough to walk over to the crew boats pier, and watch them go off across the lake. There are a couple of smaller shows tomorrow. I think we’re both tired because of being at the librarians […]
So the last conference food event was the OCLC President’s luncheon, always on the Monday of ALA – they herd several hundred people into a dining room in one of the hotels. The speech is usually a bit of a repeat of some of the things we hear at the update breakfast on Sunday, but […]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a […]
Last night we had dinner at the great tapas place, Jaleo – but I didn’t take a single picture. We had a largish group, 5 of us, so we got to sample ten tapas – we each ordered two: potatoes cooked in tomato sauce, with super garlicy aoli shrimp in garlic gazpacho x2 – so […]
Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as. Like the bread […]
I had a hot dog & fries for lunch, but I didn’t take a picture, at a place called the Billy Goat Grill & Tavern (named after the one in Chicago) – they didn’t have Chicago dogs with all the trimmings – the dog I got was plain, but nicely grilled – but they had […]
… And write – and here I am again a once a week blogger. There’re a lot of things I could blame it on, but I’d rather not. Last weekend I sent my foster daughter off to camp, so Saturday we went to Old Navy, and got her packed. I made some beef and peapods […]