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Let It Be Sunday, November 2014!

-The Confidence of an Idiot

November 1, 2014 by Joy the Baker 81 Comments

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[H]ello friends!  I hope this finds you properly reclined and sipping on something Sunday.  I’m been back in New Orleans for a week of waaaay too much Halloween fun.  I dressed up as Cleopatra.  Fierce with a side of crazy-eyes.  I’m sorry I’m not more forthcoming with photographic evidence.  I also bought a bag of Halloween candy and find that I’m mostly just eating it myself because… just let it happen.  I’m packing my bags to head to the west coast for a week.  I hope to see you in San Francisco and Seattle to show you how to make pie and write in your copies of Homemade Decadence.  It’ll be fun!

I hope your Sunday is relaxed and mellow.  I hope you over-indulge in Halloween candy even if you have to sneak it from your kid’s  stash.  Just hide the empty wrappers in the trash can… not like I’ve ever done that… who steals candy from children!?

Here is this week’s internet, condensed.  Carry on (and on and on).

•  My very favorite chef Jacques Pepin, on ketchup and other important things.

•  A woman walked around New York City for 10 hours and filmed every catcall she received.

•  A long read for a short weekend:  The Secret Life of an ISIS Warlord.

•  “How could gluten, present in a staple food that has sustained humanity for thousands of years, have suddenly become so threatening?”  What the what happened?  Against The Grain.

•  My Life On Olive Garden.  I’m getting each one of you a Pasta Pass for the holidays so GET EXCITED!

•  Similarly… My Week With A Flip Phone.  Committed but not insane… I mean, really.

•  We Are All Confident Idiots, I’m sure of it.

•  Theo Padnos on being kidnapped, tortured, and released in Syria.  This piece is 100%.  

•  Categorize under: truth is stranger/worse/more madness than fiction.  Mexico’s First Lady Of Murder Is On The Lam.

•  This is really interesting:  The Ten Greatest Changes In The Last 1,000 Years.

•  I’m headed to San Francisco and Seattle next week!  I’m giving away 4 tickets to the San Francisco pie demonstration and book signing.  Comment on this post, I’ll pick four of you tonight and see you at the signing tomorrow night!! Easy, right?

•  I need a kitchen blow torch because I want to make Creme Brûlée French Toast a reality for us.

• Tweet Game Strong.  The very best of the very worst of the very funniest tweets.

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  1. lh

    November 9, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    Hi, hope to see you at the San Fran pie demo. Or maybe Seattle. Awesome.

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  2. Jessica

    November 6, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing Against the Grain from The New Yorker! I really appreciated an article about this subject that actually goes in to some depth and doesn’t just cater to what definitely seems like the latest fad diet craze.

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  3. mrsregueiro

    November 5, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    I’m still waiting when you will be in the OC or LA!! Come back home!!

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  4. Lynn Glace

    November 5, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    Thank you for your ‘Let it be Sunday’ internet articles. I really enjoy reading them.

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  5. Fabiola

    November 4, 2014 at 7:18 am

    I would love to go to SF!! It would be wonderful to meet you!

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