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changes are coming
How do you like a completely new vegetable? Seriously. As the Daily Mail puts it, the newly-minted "flowering sprouts" give children all over the UK another vegetable to hate. They're a genetic mix of...
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Venice, City of Magic
I'll have LOADS to tell you about Venice tomorrow (Carnevale, our amazing Palazzo of a hotel, the MARKETS, my new love affair with artichokes in every form, our nostalgic trip to the Peggy Guggenheim...
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Carnevale
Languages, languages. Is there anything more satisfying than arriving in a foreign land, hearing familiar but strange words flowing all around, and reaching into your brain, back to the past when you...
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carciofini and cani
I have to tell you how silly we are, what silly things we buy when in a foreign land, to haul home in overstuffed suitcases: not Italian clothes, or Murano glass, oh no. We bring chocolates, biscotti,...
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Enron and Artichokes
I have, unsurprisingly, not much of a head for business. When John talks about subprime mortgages, TALF, TARPS and what not, I try hard to pay attention, not to retreat into making silent grocery lists...
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last day in Venice
But first.The reason I will never have a Kindle. (There are many reasons, but here is just one GOOD one).I picked up a book to read tonight, and on the flyleaf, completely ruining any resale value, I...
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being needed
I sometimes go through phases when I wonder, "What purpose am I serving, anyway?" Days pass when I don't seem to accomplish anything more significant than emptying the laundry basket, grocery shopping,...
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the magic of music (not to mention squash)
The past week or so has been an exercise in taking my own advice: simply putting aside the imaginings of what I ought to be accomplishing, in favor of the here and now of my rather needy family of...
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of matzoh balls, liver, and dentistry
Let's see, this evening we're in a moment of calm between an adventure in Golders Green, a magnificent weekend in the country, and Avery's dental surgery tomorrow. We'll start with the matzoh...
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everything soft (especially me)
Well, it's Sunday evening, there's a chill rain falling on the midnight streets of London, and I feel I've dodged a bullet.Thursday found us driving a desperately anxious Avery to have her dental...
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salads, salads, everywhere
Don't you find you get on food kicks? I do. I get an urge to cook scallops and then I have them one night with loads of olive oil, parsley, breadcrumbs and garlic. The next night I want them with...
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Just the tiniest of updates to let you know all is well... We are photographless for two reasons: one, we were unceremoniously burgled last week, AGAIN, and all photos are gone. Except for the ones we...
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My goodness.Life has been simply crazy of late. The last two weeks have simply SPED by in the company of my beloved mother-in-law who always makes every event three times as much fun, just by being...
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of eruptions and interruptions
Two words: volcanic ash. Who knew that two words could have such a devastating, discombobulating, disorienting effect on much of the world.No flights.In or out of the UK, as you all know by now, and...
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New blog is coming.New version of OLD blog is coming.Improved blog of (sob) beloved blog is coming.I'm SCARED.I love my blog. I love how it looks, how pointlessly old-fashioned it is, how only-texty,...
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catching up with Wiltshire (with a little Rye along the way)
Life: speeded up. I cannot believe it's been a month since our unforgettable trip to Wiltshire, most especially the magical town of Salisbury, and that I am just now sitting down to look at these...
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continued adventures in the shires...
Before I devote myself to the continuation of our Wiltshire story (ponies!), I must tell you that not only is today the UK General Election, in which we'll get a new Prime Minister, but also tomorrow...
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you CAN go home again
There is no substitute for going "home." No matter how strongly I feel about my own home in London, or how much I loved our various apartments in New York, when I walk into my mother and father's home...
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So...Drumroll please...Here is a link to the new and improved "Kristen in London," still in the planning stages and we're still building that recipe index! But I'd like to ask your opinion on how it...
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a star is boiled
Guess what? It's the 600th post for "Kristen in London," and very possibly the last before my new look is unveiled, so Happy Birthday to us!My house right now is filled top to bottom with a band of men...
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the hidden beauty of exams
It's a good news/bad news scenario, and since I'm Scandinavian I always want the bad news first: Avery's long-dreaded end-of-year school exams begin tomorrow morning. Five days, 11 exams, nothing else....
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The Crucible (of June)
Stop the presses: SUNBURN! Not a lot, I rush in to say, but today we got... sunburned. I'm old-fashioned enough to say I put on "suntan lotion," when my PC side knows I really mean "sunblock" or...
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the blueberry or the muffin? you decide
Might I interrupt whatever exciting activities are occupying you, dear readers, at this moment, and ask your opinion?I am about to meet with a simply SUBLIME food photographer here in London, about...
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eight things I love about London
Actually, one of the things I like best about London is that as I was compiling this list, the number of "things I love about London" kept growing! I thought I'd better stop before I got to double...
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goodbye!
It's with mixed feelings that I say goodbye to the old "Kristen in London" and prepare to say hello to the new...So many wonderful memories of beginning my efforts nearly five years ago, of "meeting"...
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