Almond cake (served here with a little rhubarb compote) - click on the pic to get the recipe.
This smooth, light puree of canned tuna, shallot, and a touch of cream or creme fraiche is delicious on toast, baguette or good crusty bread. It will remind you of tuna salad, in a good way. Click the pic to go to the recipe.
Rosemary and pink peppercorn cornmeal cookies - lovely and not too sweet. Click through for the recipe.
love this chart given that i’m in grad school right now and trying to get a final group project done this weekend!
(via ilovecharts)
fun shots of nyc!
Day and Night in New York City Captured in Single Images by Stephen Wilkes.
(via npr)
The YWCA weighs in on the importance of the Violence Against Women Act. There are three reasons some Republicans are trying to block the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act: Gays, immigrants, and Native Americans.
A weekend of cooking inspired by Tamar Adler’s book, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace - click on the pic to see everything that went into the skillet
I hadn’t really thought about how crazy out of control my gmail account had gotten till I saw this on Saturday. I’ve now deleted literally thousands of emails. Felt a major sense of accomplishment!
good:
This spring, why not beautify and simplify your inbox, the electronic manifestation of your whole life?
Our Gmail insider is here to give you options other than “slash and burn.”
Banana coconut cake (click pic for recipe)
![Give a read when you have a minute - an account of the only person born into a North Korean prison camp to escape.
theatlantic:
Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death
Nine years after watching his mother’s hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric fence that surrounds Camp 14 and ran off through the snow into the North Korean wilderness. It was January 2, 2005. Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do it.He was 23 years old and knew no one outside the fence.Within a month, he had walked into China. Within two years, he was living in South Korea. Four years later, he was living in Southern California.
Stunted by malnutrition, he is short and slight — five feet six inches, about 120 pounds. His arms are bowed from childhood labor. His lower back and buttocks are scarred with burns from the torturer’s fire. The skin over his pubis bears a puncture scar from the hook used to hold him in place over the fire. His ankles are scarred by shackles, from which he was hung upside down in solitary confinement. His right middle finger is cut off at the first knuckle, a guard’s punishment for dropping a sewing machine in a camp garment factory. His shins, from ankle to knee on both legs, are mutilated and scarred by burns from the electrified barbed-wire fence that failed to keep him inside Camp 14.
Shin is roughly the same age as Kim Jong Un, the chubby third son of Kim Jong Il who took over as leader after his father’s death in 2011.
Shin was born a slave and raised behind a high-voltage barbed-wire fence. His mother beat him, and he viewed her as a competitor for food. His father, who was allowed by guards to sleep with his mother just five nights a year, ignored him. His older brother was a stranger. Children in the camp were untrustworthy and abusive. Before he learned anything else, Shin learned to survive by snitching on all of them.
Love and mercy and family were words without meaning.
Read more. [Image: AP]
A chilling account of the only person born into a North Korean prison camp and escape. It’ll leave you speechless.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lnnyHhU21qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Give a read when you have a minute - an account of the only person born into a North Korean prison camp to escape.
Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death
Nine years after watching his mother’s hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric fence that surrounds Camp 14 and ran off through the snow into the North Korean wilderness. It was January 2, 2005. Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do it.
He was 23 years old and knew no one outside the fence.
Within a month, he had walked into China. Within two years, he was living in South Korea. Four years later, he was living in Southern California.Stunted by malnutrition, he is short and slight — five feet six inches, about 120 pounds. His arms are bowed from childhood labor. His lower back and buttocks are scarred with burns from the torturer’s fire. The skin over his pubis bears a puncture scar from the hook used to hold him in place over the fire. His ankles are scarred by shackles, from which he was hung upside down in solitary confinement. His right middle finger is cut off at the first knuckle, a guard’s punishment for dropping a sewing machine in a camp garment factory. His shins, from ankle to knee on both legs, are mutilated and scarred by burns from the electrified barbed-wire fence that failed to keep him inside Camp 14.
Shin is roughly the same age as Kim Jong Un, the chubby third son of Kim Jong Il who took over as leader after his father’s death in 2011.
Shin was born a slave and raised behind a high-voltage barbed-wire fence. His mother beat him, and he viewed her as a competitor for food. His father, who was allowed by guards to sleep with his mother just five nights a year, ignored him. His older brother was a stranger. Children in the camp were untrustworthy and abusive. Before he learned anything else, Shin learned to survive by snitching on all of them.
Love and mercy and family were words without meaning.
Read more. [Image: AP]
A chilling account of the only person born into a North Korean prison camp and escape. It’ll leave you speechless.
Today’s lunch, Japanese style - miso soup, yakitori, salmon nanbankuze, spinach and greens with sesame oil and furikake, and chicken with garlic soy mayo panko crust, and a little rice - just need a bento box to put it all in!
It’s a gray make a pot of miso soup kind of day
