Today is Memorial Day, and I know many of you are griping that you cannot celebrate the holiday the way you would like. There will be no large family gatherings (at least, there shouldn't be) or neighborhood block parties (again, there shouldn't be), or gatherings of clustered maskless folks in enclosed spaces (once more--there shouldn't be). Honestly, I don't care what your state tells you is ok, it's most likely not. (I welcome you to come back in 6 weeks if there hasn't been a spike of cases and tell me I was wrong.)

This whole situation has been going on for ten weeks now, and honestly I have gotten pretty used to spending 80% of my time in my own dining room with no company other than my husband and our dog. Last week, however, we had the opportunity to get out of the house and socialize. It was Dara's birthday, and she invited friends to come over and sit on her lawn, 6'+ away from each other, to enjoy cake and company. We were to arrive in shifts, and fortunately our shift overlapped with that of other friends, the Keefers, whom we have not seen at all in 2020. We spent a good hour or more discussing life after Covid, the current season of Top Chef, and the local restaurant industry. I haven't had such a good time in, well, at least 10 weeks! And I realized that such simple pleasures--sitting in the sun, talking with friends--are among the most important things in life. Not haircuts and manicures or going to bars.

Stay well, readers. See you on Thursday for our next recap.

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Not only do I write about food and take photos of food, I use those photos to create fabric designs. The four below are some of my latest designs and can be found on everything from travel mugs to duvet covers and more. I particularly like them on scarves, tote bags, and sofa pillows.

Check out the links below every photo to see my whole line, sold by Redbubble.com.

Good Morning
Koreatown

Little Italy

Taco Tuesday

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I'll be a celebrity judge at Santé, A Culinary Odyssey next Thursday. This fun foodie event benefits the National Kidney Foundation; tickets can be purchased by clicking here.



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The holidays are coming in just a couple of short months, and I have some gift ideas for you!

I may have been inspired by the annual "make a garment with fabric you design yourself" challenge on Project Runway when I started toying with repeating designs. The spring flowers were also pretty inspiring, so my first patterns involved lilies, ranunculus, daisies, poppies, and other posies. Then I realized food could make equally decorative patterns, so I went on to hamburgers, donuts, ice cream, and dim sum. But what to do with them?

Redbubble.com is a company that puts prints onto just about anything your heart desires: phone cases, laptop bags, notebooks, t-shirts, scarves, even duvet covers. Find all of my designs on both garments and knick-knacks at my Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/theminx1




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