Today’s assemble-your-own lunch board. A little random, because we had some leftover roast pork and Yorkshire pudding that Kevin made the other night, along with sautéed pea pods and roasted broccoli. ALSO a few leftover chicken wings from takeout the other night. So all I did was put it all out, slice some apples and […]
Shipped out a half-dozen books from last weekend’s sale, with bonus bath products. This is really about the pace I can manage — if I were shipping a lot more, I think I’d need to enlist help for it. Which would be fine, just to be clear! More book sales = good. But for now,
And this piece appeared in the Corvallis Gazette Times (Corvallis, Oregon): Sri Lankan food offers strong flavors Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother’s cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1973,
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I’m finding myself totally curious about how newspaper articles work, because Gretchen McKay’s terrific piece on A Feast of Serendib has made its way from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Sri Lanka’s Daily News! Would she have pitched them this piece? Do newspapers keep an eye out for pieces of interest and then buy reprint rights?
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“Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother’s cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1973, they brought with them their fiery curries, coconut sambols and countless rice dishes. Many of the recipes
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Mascot paid me! Mascot is my hybrid publisher for the cookbook — they handle book distribution through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and Amazon. We started taking pre-orders in January or so, I think, so this is about 8 months in, and is the first real check; they have to collect the money from those places
Kevin decided the kids could use a mid-week treat, so made crepes + fillings dinner, which all of us love. I may have eaten several spoons of the apple filling straight up. Shh…. He is such a nice boy. Anand’s newest food experiment — Nutella + Italian sausage. Um. MIGHT be okay? He ate it,
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Happiness is the second shipment of Feast cookbooks arriving at your door, because you’ve sold out of the first shipment. (Of course, now I have to carry them down to the basement. Book boxes are heavy. That’ll take care of some of today’s exercise…)
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Anand’s “made it to lunch” pose! I tossed a loaf of Pillsbury French bread dough in the toaster oven for a treat — 25 minutes later, hot, crusty bread, put out with butter and veggies (pepper and tomatoes from the garden!) and hummus and dip and cheese and salami and sliced apples and clementines. Easy
This is a ramble about my small businesses and making money. I had a long conversation with Kevin yesterday about what writing projects I should work on this fall. So many possibilities — I need to narrow it down to both a) what might pay well soon, and b) what’s interesting to me right now.
