When you write and share recipes online or in a cookbook, as a baker, the most FAQ is if something can be frozen. I don’t know about yours, but my freezer is fully packed 365 days of the year. (There’s a scientific theory that if there is a void, something fills it, and my freezer is a prime example of that.) I kept dreaming about buying a separate freezer…until I finally did it and bought a mini one.

Over the past few days I’ve had email exchanges with John Welsford, New Zealand designer, regarding a brainstorm that’s been percolating in his clever, whimsical noggin: A bigger, more commodious takeoff on his wildly popular SCAMP design. As most SCA readers know, the 11’ 11” SCAMP design was conceived 13 years ago when Josh Colvin, editor of this fine publication, asked Welsford to come up with a new kind of small cruising boat—one small enough to explore the most hard-to-penetrate backwaters, while being easy to rig, light enough to trailer with the smallest of tow vehicles, surprisingly great under sail, and comfy for overnight camp-cruising adventures.

Even ThisI Get to Experience (Penguin Press, 2014) by Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, moved me when I read it a few years ago. In the aftermath of his death, I re-read my margin notes. Because his is a remarkable career in television—he was a true freethinker—I want to pay tribute to a creator. I wrote this review. (For additional, personal thoughts, including meeting Mr.

Billie Breslin has traveled far from her home in California to take a job at Delicious!, New York’s most iconic food magazine. Away from her family, particularly her older sister, Genie, Billie feels like a fish out of water—until she is welcomed by the magazine’s colorful staff. She is also seduced by the vibrant downtown food scene, especially by Fontanari’s, the famous Italian food shop where she works on weekends. Then Delicious!

This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History The 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks unexpectedly vindicated the careers of many NBA greats. Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, Peja Stojakovic, and Jason Terry were just some of the veterans who finally got a ring that season. But no one was more vindicated than Dallas’s sweet shooting, tall white forward who had struggled for over a decade to silence his critics. Doesn’t rebound enough.