Archives for April 2010

Wordless Wednesday

Wonders of Pakistan Part VI: Buying ribbons to adorn kurtas and dupattas, in Liberty Market, Lahore, December 2009.

A Cookbook-less Chocolate Cake with Fleur de Sel Ganache

Ami’s recipes are scribbled on small pieces of paper. Soft pages which crumple in your hands; torn out from my elementary school ‘exercise books’ in Lagos, Nigeria. Another scribbled on the back of a Pan Am ticket sleeve. Or maybe on an index card, in her friend Liz’s cursive handwriting. The curly kind of writing your Third Grade teacher used to have. Liz, the first friend my mother made after moving to the United States as a young bride. The mother of my first boyfriend, at age 3. Read More