I’m not suggesting that you put chopped tomato in your fruit salad, but I am suggesting you put fruit with fruit. Tomato is a fruit, and plums, peaches and berries are all fruits, and they go together magnificently. In fact, I hereby declare a trend that’s going to last all summer: The Tomato (Is A) Fruit Salad. I’m thinking here of the salad of heirloom tomatoes with shiso leaves, raspberries, blackberries and a tart, tangy mustard and lemon dressing I had at the new Busby’s wine and record bar in Sydney from chef Clayton Wells; and the coral trout with a salad of tomato, yellow peach and shiso at The Society in Melbourne.

One of the topics I receive the most queries about is ‘brocanting’ in Paris. Brocante is an all encompassing word for flea market, junk store, jumble sale or antiques dealer, and Paris has them all. Below is a roundup on what they are, where to find them, my top tips and how to get it all home. First things first, you need to know the lingo: Vide-grenier literally translates to ‘empty the attic’ and refers to a temporary open-air sale, a mix of total junk with some hidden gems.

On October 18, the final installment of the Dreamer Trilogy, Greywaren, comes out (yay! whoo! etc!). It’s been a hot second since the first two books have come out and not everyone has time to reread 800 pages before October, so I’ll be posting recaps here. If you’d like to read recaps of the books in The Raven Cycle as well, you can find them on Recaptains. Without further ado, Call Down the Hawk.

I have a random question for you reference floating neutral generators. I recently purchased a champion inverter generator for the purpose of off grid camping with an rv and powering some devices(tools and such) with it. Now I'm reading that I really shouldn't use this kind of generator(floating neutral) for my applications. I haven't used it yet but prefer not to get killed. Will the bonded neutral plugs like the one you invented not only just turn my generator into a bonded neutral generator, but also help keep me from getting shocked?

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. In trying to figure out which Portland bagels I needed to try as part of the review process, I turned to the people one must turn to in times of great difficulty and concern: Rabbis.