Nicole Villeneuve: Literary Recipes: Walt Whitman’s Cranberry Coffee Cake

(Adapted from The Home Cook Book and Food52′s Prune Coffee Cake) 3/4 cup dried cranberries 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1/2 cup Continue reading Nicole Villeneuve: Literary Recipes: Walt Whitman’s Cranberry Coffee Cake

Payback’s a bitch

Payback’s a bitch. “He told me to go fuck myself,” said Scher, who stopped serving as an outside adviser to Edwards at that point. via Peter Scher, John Edwards’ Former Adviser, Says Then-Candidate Dismissed Warning About Affair.

More Pilates.

More Pilates. This time, self-induced — self-instructed? At any rate, here. I stick with instructors in the lineage (I hate that word) of Romana Krysanowska. I even had a smoothie for breakfast without hardly any crap in it. It involved a handful of fresh spinach and some whey protein powder. No chocolate. No flax seed Continue reading More Pilates.