Home. After two weeks on the road in the van, we made it back North. Brrr, it was a cold reentry! Right away, I started back in the kitchen. I am working on a new cookbook. It's not officially named, but its working title is “Cold Weather Cooking from the True North to My Twin Cities Table” or something along those lines. Have any good ideas? Leave them here as I know it needs some work:

In March 2000, children across the Arab world rejoiced at the launch of the first home-grown TV channel dedicated to cartoons. Spacetoon started off by taking over airtime from Bahrain’s national TV channel. In less than two years, surging demand meant that Spacetoon had outgrown its 8-hour slot and broke away to form its own independent station.  Spacetoon primarily broadcasts dubbed, foreign (usually Japanese) cartoons, imbued with more locally appropriate cultural themes.

Trigger warning: Themes of self harm. There have been mixed opinions on tattoos since the beginning, however as well as being ‘alternative’, some people now consider them a form of self-harm, with others turning to them as a substitute. Modern day tattoos started in New York City, when Martin Hildebrandt, the first professional tattoo artist, set up his tattoo studio in the mid-19th century. During this time, people with tattoos were thought of as having a ‘criminal character’.

A listener submitted a question earlier this week that was basically: Why are we talking about Taylor Swift again???? And I get it: if you’re not a fan, if her music is not for you, you too might be tired of the ongoing Taylor Swift Conversation. But I’m ultimately less interested in Taylor Swift herself and more interested in the shape of that conversation: what are we actually talking about when we talk about Taylor Swift?

Which came first, the wine or the marketing campaign? In my career writing about wine, I have received, along with wine, of course, the usual and the odd assortment of devices from marketing and PR people. These include corkscrews and foil cutters, little notebooks with pens, packets of spices and jars of condiments and, back in the 1990s, when this was … ncG1vNJzZmiamZy0pr7ToZinsZ%2Bqv6mxwJ1lrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX2d9cYWOamloaGFkwaa5z6uYZqyRo8GzwcxmpJqcXZbAbrTEpaM%3D