Kiva loans

I have microlent to:

Jazmines Group


Jazmines Group
Location:Bolivia,
Activity:Services

Oyunchimeg Norpil


Oyunchimeg Norpil
Location:Mongolia, Arhangai
Activity:Internet Cafe

Hugo


Hugo
Location:United States, New York, New York
Activity:Transportation

My latest food obsession:

I’m loving these buckets of jam from the Russian specialty store1 near me. It’s a pretty tiny store; more than five people in there and it gets almost impossible to navigate. They also have excellent pickles.

The photo doesn’t really give a good idea of the scale of these containers: that one is slightly bigger [...]

POM Still-Almost-But-Not-Quite-Wonderful

Well, evidently I was wrong when I said I’d never get free stuff from PR people again.

Photo credit: Dave’s Cupboard

Yet again, like a bazillion other food bloggers, I also got POM’s two new flavors — POM Nectarine and POM Kiwi — in the mail. And in this second go-round of product placement, I think [...]

Ting!

Several years back, I discussed my love of Ting, a sugar-sweetened Jamaican grapefruit soda. It’s been getting harder to find lately, at least here in Washington Heights.

A couple weeks ago, I stopped in to the Kmart on 34th Street (which is really quite nice, as far as Kmarts go) and while downstairs, looking [...]

I made pizza! It was easy! And it didn’t suck!

A couple of years ago, we were living in Massachusetts and squirreling every dime in the hopes of moving to New York. The pizza delivery guy was a distant, dim memory from the days of frivolous purchases like take-out, cable TV, or new underwear. Desperate for pizza, I labored over a batch of dough, then [...]

Perhaps I am suffering some sort of rain-induced dementia.

For those of you not living on the eastern coast of the US, here’s what you’re missing out on: rain. Rain, more rain, cloudiness, then some downpours, followed by a 30-minute window of sun where you shout, “Holy shit, I see the sun! GET YOUR SHOES ON EVERYONE!” which will immediately be followed by more [...]