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Category Archives: molasses

Beers & barbecues.

It’s that time of year again. When everyone starts to grill their meats, when the sun sets later and when corn on the cob becomes the staple side dish. It’s been an unusually warm winter and an early spring, despite the temperatures dropping quite low at night lately (which has threatened crops that started to [...]


May 10, 2012

Perfectly irregular little Christmas trees.

Most people know I’m a New Yorker. I’m a New Yorker through & through- I like my clothes black & my coffee expensive, I walk fast & hate eye contact with anyone unless I know them. What most people don’t know is the history of one of New York’s most beloved traditions: the Rockefeller Center [...]


December 09, 2011

Now bring us some figgy pudding, & bring some out here!

So, if you’re like me, that line from ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas‘ always made you giggle as a kid. I mean, I’m sure most of us, especially us Yankees here in America, have asked ourselves at one point or another: “What the hell is a figgy pudding, exactly?” Figgy pudding is a pudding [...]


December 17, 2010

Stout bread.

Happy belated Thanksgiving, all ye Americans reading this. I hope you ate yourselves into the appropriate food coma. I for one am working off my Thanksgiving food ingestion by walking around the beautiful isle of Manhattan today with my Sami, and going to see the new Harry Potter movie. Oh, and eating, of course. I’m [...]


November 27, 2010

A new spin on pumpkin muffins.

A bunch of stuff has been going on lately, and I’m kind of all over the place (not to mention still fighting off this disgusting cold that just won’t die… it’s like a bad zombie movie: Night of the Living Mucus). I wanted to thank everyone who purchased from Yoyo‘s webstore on November 1st. Thanks [...]


November 09, 2010