I’ve been to Ohio and back this week. Cincinnati to be exact. I hosted a pie demonstration at the Cincinnati Food and Wine Festival where I made a pie, cracked some jokes, and made myself (if no one else) laugh. I also stayed at the 21c Museum Hotel which might be the coolest hotel to ever be a hotel.
Bonus for this week: I found a friendship bracelet on the ground, picked it up, and made the weird decision to keep it. Judge me. Go ahead. I’m also working on a recipe for meringues that taste like chocolate chip cookies. That’s a process.
There are things we should talk about. These are them:
• Eating: A Manifesto. Hey ladies, we can stop torturing ourselves about the brownie and just eat the brownie. My goodness the way we torture ourselves. Thank you for linking to this, Molly. It’s a sigh of relief.
• Listed under things we still have to think about and will probably have to think about for a long time: ISIS. The president made a big speech about it and most of us, myself include were probably like… Ok. Here we go. Here’s our president making a speech about something. But think about it; this doesn’t happen all that often. When it happens it’s important. When it happens it’s also very deliberate and well produced. It’s a message and a production down to the detail. This The Gist episode is an interesting look behind the production and nuance of a presidential speech: Did You See Obama Pull A John Wayne Last Night? It’s short and really interesting.
• Something about this list of The New Establishment according to Vanity Fair makes me uncomfortable… and it’s not because I’m not on the list. Something about it just makes my lips curl. Maybe it’s because calling something The New Establishment makes it too too much and I like to think I’m not boss of me.
• I just freed an innocent man from death row. And I’m still furious. A think-piece.
• This week was the anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Here’s the thing: we’re going to think about this date every year until forever. Two pieces really stood out to me in light of this week’s sad anniversary. First, an F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on September 11th. Imagine that one day you wake up and your job is to fly your plane into a hijacked civilian airplane and you decide to yes, do what is asked of you. Second, The Falling Man is a piece originally published in 2003 about Richard Drew’s infamous photograph of a man falling from The World Trade Center. With a new and very powerful introduction from Tom Junod. This is the part of life and times that is hard and complicated and in need of words.
• When I was your age, I had to walk to school, through the snow, uphill both ways. Yadda yadda yadda, Gramps. 25 of the Most Dangerous and Unusual Journeys To School In The World.
• Not Without Salt is a lovely blog by Ashley Rodriguez. She is newly packaging her mega-delicious Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie in mixes. I’m thinking this will make a great just-thinking-about-you gift! Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix. All you need is a stick of softened butter and an egg! I love it.
• I love when high school students write food blogs: Plentiful Plate. Go on and get it!
• You’ve been washing your face wrong, but here’s how to do it right (from a fancy French facialist). Also, I’ve struggled with my skin in the past…. lke big time. This clay mask has transformed my skin for the better. It’s all-natural and majorly effective.
• Simple Chocolate Cake with Ganache. Hit it, don’t quit it.
Happy Sunday (+Monday) friends and lovers. I’m out.
xo Joy
Paulette
You were in Ohio, hey I live in Ohio. Its an omen finding the friendship bracelet and yes keep it that is not weird. I found and kept stranger things. I found my husband and I still have him. I am Italian I think I said that before and you do eat whenever the occasion calls for it, especially chocolate. Love dark chocolate. Hey Joy have a great week. Paulette
whiskandshout
“Don’t Worry, Be Yoncé” is my new life motto! And shoutout to high school food bloggers! Love finding people my age who love food as much as I do :)
Broma Bakery
Definitely just spent 20 minutes reading through these links. You should totally do this every Sunday, it’s like a Joy-the-Baker Weekend News addition. Loves it.
Broma Bakery
Well I’ll be darned, you do already. How have I missed this?!
Ella
I love that you love high school students’ blogs. I’m a high school sophomore with a YouTube channel (I know, not the same thing) about beauty, lifestyle, occasionally food, and just fun things in general. I noticed that Plentiful Plate doesn’t seem to have a lot of attention yet (I don’t either- just reached 300 subscribers) and I think it’s really, really cool that you decided to give it a mention anyway. You’re a pretty awesome lady, Joy. You know that? I hope so.
The article/pictures of the kids’ journeys to school is terrifying. On one hand, it makes me so happy to see children that will persevere through all sorts of obstacles to get an education. On the other, it really makes me mad. Why can’t we prioritize their education? I believe that regardless of our political differences, all countries should be united in that effort. The world would be such a better place if EVERYONE got a fair chance to go to school.
Thanks for sharing these thoughtful reads! I hope your Sunday is a great one.
http://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26
Sue
How do you make meringues in New Orleans? Isn’t it too humid?
Sarah
Cinci is my home town! I hope you enjoyed it :) I always love reading about people who visit. Great links today!
Bryony @ Bryony Cooks
That eating manifesto is perfect and so, so important. Thanks for sharing!
Michelle
Hey Joy, even though i know nothing about cooking and can merely assemble stuff like a sandwich i love your posts and pictures and the fact that you are in NOLA! we went there in dec and we loved cochon! have you been there yet? great food and fun ambience!
love
michelle
singapore
Theresa
Usually love your Sunday posts. Shitty to keep the bracelet. Has no value to you but obviously sentimental value to someone else. Yup – deliberately make a choice to do the wrong thing and then brag about in social media? Sure, I’ll judge.
joythebaker
to be clear, it was one of those super-cheap, synthetic, store-bought friendship bracelets. the kind that like two people in the whole world care about. and it was on the ground. i didn’t do a wrong thing, so CHILL OUT.
Theresa
You picked it up and kept it. The person that lost it obviously liked it too, no? If it was worth $.01 it’s ok vs. $100,00?
Leslie
Theresa- where is she supposed to turn this in to? The police station?? They would look at her and laugh! The store thang she found it in front of?? Might not even be the store they were in so then the store had to hold on to this thing. I worked at a deli where this happened all the time. After a month we would throw the stuff out or argue how got to keep it! Chill dude!
Melinda Skalland-Mills
Seriously Joy-what’s next? Are you going to start picking up used cigarette butt’s? Those have sentimental value, you know. Every little stick is a memory. And what about random paper clips and post-its that seem to make their way onto the streets? Do you stop to imagine the devastation they must feel when they realize you’ve stolen a small piece of their soul in the form of a reminder to get milk? Where does it end, Joy? Today a cheap friendship bracelet that the owner very likely has forgotten they ever even owned, tomorrow a sock that escaped a laundry bag on the way home from the Landromat. Where is your humanity?
Also I love the irony that is someone is hating on you over an item that is meant to inspire friendship and love. Is the internet not just a never-ending gift? Ignore her, girl-your Sunday posts rock, are super informative and I like to think the previous owner of that bracelet would be glad you have it and the chain of friendship is continuing.
joythebaker
the Internet is such a special gift! it really really is!
mariah
um. really Theresa? how do you weigh actual wrong doings? I’m curious.
felicia
Theresa, get a life. Seriously, just shut up. Respectfully yours, Felicia.
Mary Ann
Love all the recommendations – I have so many tabs open on my computer right now from clicking on all your links. Especially like the article on eating – every woman I have ever known has been that woman at the counter. And we need to stop! Great read – shared, shared, shared!
joythebaker
right on, mary-ann!
Rebecca J
how were you in Ohio and I didn’t go see you. Also, how was there a pie festival that I did not attend!
Lene Svingel
Because of your previous ‘let it be sunday’ post, I became aware of the ISIS problem. These people scare me! Glad to learn that Obama is sending a message – a peaceful approach to world peace. As was a demontration protesting ISIS, held in a muslim neighbourhood here in Copenhagen. Maybe we can beat this thing together.
On a lighter note: your sunday post is always enjoyable reading :-). A good mix of subjects.
Have a lovely sunday.
joythebaker
i’m so glad to share things with you!
rebekahfromaustin
I love these posts.
Amy U
I have eaten at the 21C Art Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AK. They have green penguins! The concept is amazing and the food was great! I did not know they had other hotels. Such a cool concept. Thanks for these awesome Sunday posts. Falling Man post….no words to describe after reading that.
cheyenne
love that eating manifesto. totally getting some chocolate now!
xo, cheyenne