The Modernista

If only we could get our cat Louie to do this…

My doctor recently told me to avoid foods with gluten, which isn’t a big deal for me. Unfortunately, he also said to stop eating soy replacement foods, which was pretty devastating to me, the hardcore vegetarian. And on top of that, I’m not one of those vegetarians who loves beans and vegetables. Nope. I love(d) [...]

I said I wanted to learn to cook, right? What better motivation could I need?

So, I just read a pretty fascinating book called Gluten-Free Girl by Shauna James Ahern. In this memoir-cum-cookbook, Ahern chronicles her food habits as a child, her chronic illnesses, and finally her diagnosis of celiac disease, which renders her unable to eat foods that contain gluten (typically wheat, barley, rye and spelt). Rather than adopting [...]

For the past few months, people have been telling me to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. Like, literally once a month someone would recommend it to me. So I finally bit the bullet and put my name on the waiting list. I got my copy a few days ago, and I have to admit [...]

I enjoy the web comic xkcd. I don’t always understand it, since it frequently deals with coding and complex math, but I generally get a kick out of it (enough that I bought my husband an xkcd shirt for his last birthday). Anyway, there was a recent strip about fruit that I thought was hilarious. [...]