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Articles by Jillian Bedell
Jillian is a magnificent ship. She lives on the beach in Mexico with her husband and two dogs where she reads, writes, walks and practices Nia.
Smelling the cork is so over. These days wine is irreverent, just like us. It comes in boxes, jugs, and apparently, barrels. And it’s good. The next time you’re going to a party, instead of Two Buck …
The Daily Beast has compiled a list of the smartest cities in the USA. We’ve lived together in one (half) of the metropoltian areas ranked in the top ten; I went to college in another; …
Baking bread is one of life’s little alchemys I am only now beginning to probe. Baguettes need steam, bagels are boiled and sourdough, as I once understood it, requires a mother, or a beast or bitch …
What do you eat when you are all alone? My husband left town on Saturday and the first thing I did after I dropped him off at the aiport was go to the grocery store. I …
I regret having never been a paper boy. My first job was babysitting – what a cliche – which I started when I was eleven. I was desperate for a hot pink walkman and strapped …
It was late in the winter of ‘04 and my unemployment had just run out. My filthy Theravadan roomate got us booted from our apartment under the BQE so I moved in with my boyfriend on …
“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I don’t know what I …
The chicken was delicious if a misnomer. I used perhaps twenty-six cloves and skipped the blanching; I just gently bashed with the flat of a knife, snipped the ends and peeled. We were out of butter …
What we have: a package of bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts, so over the boneless and skinless
What we don’t have: tarragon or thyme
What in the world is: Cognac (Is it brandy? Is it Hennessey? It sounds soo romantic and …
I open up my custom cupboard doors two or three times a day to gaze upon that glorious ziggurat of plastic food storage containers, my cherished Popit! collection. Let’s disuss the mechanics before we wax philosophic. Popit!s range in …
