Happy Halloween!

 

I hope you get lots of candy, especially large Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter cups.  They’re the best. Unless you like apples or nuts or other healthy stuff.  Then I hope you get lots of those.

Stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow!

 

Summertime

Update 7/3/08: I have a recipe in this post now!  I figured it’s plenty time to post a recipe.  Click on “Read More” and scroll to the bottom.  Happy jam making! ~K

Sunday morning I woke up full of energy. Some of it was nervous energy, some of it was excitement. The first thing I did was sneak out of bed and peak out the window. I wasn’t an eager child looking for snow on Christmas Day, I was impatient to find out if the predicted thunder storms had already begun. Rain would ruin everything, and if my plans failed, I would have nothing to do all day long. For a week I had been looking forward to spending the day up in Ipswich picking strawberries and going to the beach with David and our friend, Andrew.

Libraries and Chocolate

The other day I was exploring the Cambridge neighborhoods I work in, mainly trying to find Formaggio Kitchen and a fish shop next to it. David, who isn’t a big fan of fish, wasn’t going to be home and I wanted to prepare a tilapia for dinner. On my way back to the T stop, I stumbled upon some buildings that looked similar in architecture to some dorms at Smith College, my alma mater. I knew I was close to Harvard, and when I inspected one of the signs more closely I smiled (I may have even uttered an “Oh!” out loud, but only the birds can tell you if I did or not). On a white background in clear lettering stood “Radcliffe” and underneath it “Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.”

I’d heard about the Schlesinger Library, the only of Harvard’s many libraries that is open to the public. It houses many documents on women, and is famous for its cookbook collections. They archive all of Julia Child’s personal papers, as well as her own library of cookbooks. They also have Marilyn Monroe’s cookbooks (I’ve heard it’s quite a small collection), among many other collections of both famous and pedestrian women.