Last night, I made Chicken Vesuvio based on a Giada recipe sent in by reader Molly.
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Speaking of traveling companions, make sure they're people you like. A lot.
Valerie’s Cheesesteaks
Within moments of stepping through the door, I learn that the bartender/waitress likes a "hard spankin'," that the teenager smoking out front is apparently the chef, and that we will be able to find the best cheesesteaks around on this very spot.
Poorly Executed Egg Spin Test
Poorly Executed Egg Spin Test from Jordan Reid on Vimeo.
Wallpaper Your Heart (Or Your Living Room)
My article on TheGloss.com:
Did you know that it is possible to have an overwhelming emotional response to wallpaper? It is indeed. I was sixteen years old when wallpaper first hit me hard: I walked through the front door of my family’s apartment, having just been unceremoniously dumped by my gorgeous and much-fawned-over French boyfriend, only to discover that in my four-hour absence my parents had covered the kitchen walls in paper adorned with French love poems. I plunked myself directly down on the kitchen floor and cried.
The next time wallpaper made me tear up was a decidedly better experience: my downstairs neighbor, Stephen Haskell, offered to paper a couple of walls in our living room with leftover rolls produced by the designer wallpaper company he runs, Cavern Home. When I saw the results, my heart went all aflutter: my semi-dilapidated, cream-colored, decidedly run-of-the-mill living room had been transformed into a thing of beauty. I now watch episodes of America’s Next Top Model happily ensconced in a piece of art.
I sat down with Stephen to ask him a few questions about the best ways to use wallpaper in small spaces, and where wallpaper trends are headed.