Viking Easter follow up

April 7, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

Good food and a few silly moments in the most meaningful of holidays.

Celebrate Easter like a Viking

April 1, 2010.Reading time 2 minutes.

Celebrate Easter like a Viking…try these recipes.

Indianapolis–Only the Best Burger on Earth

March 30, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

Usually I don’t eat things that are bigger than my head. But…

The Sound of Calling

March 26, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

My grandmother never imagined when she was sewing the curtains out of the same sunflower- patterned sheets that covered my bed in her spare room that God would see them.

Fill your kishkas

March 15, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

Shapiro’s is like eating at my grandma’s…except for all the old Jewish people.

Brave–but not fearless…

March 9, 2010.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Her mother never told Maribel she couldn’t.

And so from the time she was the child who would come home covered in mud until she was the college sophomore involved in SCUBA diving, horseback riding, and karate, Maribel Melendez-Napoles never let the fact that she was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy tell her she couldn’t either.

Death of a Friend

March 9, 2010.Reading time 6 minutes.

While I slept beside my husband, Clare was slipping away, trying to hold on, I imagine, until Charles made it to the hospital just minutes away.

An Ox Tail, or the story of great African food

March 7, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

At her restaurant, Mabovi’s in Matteson, Illinois, (moving soon to East Hazel Crest), Bea cooks the food, takes your order, serves it to you, and may make you dance after you’re too full to move like a fat American let alone a joyful Ghanaian.