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Let It Be Sunday!

March 19, 2017 by Joy the Baker 27 Comments

Hello my friends!  

Please accept this shorter offering of Sunday reads this week.  Please also accept my relentless requests that you cook from my new cookbook Over Easy and join me out in the world for cooking demos and book signings in the next few weeks.  Tomorrow (that’s MONDAY March 20th!!) I’ll be chatting with Deb from Smitten Kitchen at Rizzoli Bookstore.  I hope you’ll join us because if you don’t, Deb and I will have to drink all the wine spritzers ourselves sitting atop a stack of my cookbook.  This wouldn’t be the worst, but it’s just not the way we want things to go down.  

In my suitcase for the next few weeks is everything from a puffy jacket to a black bikini.  I’m running the spectrum, having watched several hours of packing videos on YouTube.  Are you on this packing cube bandwagon?  Do you know how many t-shirts you can fit in those things?  The answer is: A LOT.  The follow-up question though:  how many t-shirts does one reeaallllyyy need? (Probably not that many) 

Besides brunch, new cookbooks, travel adventures and mixed anxiety and excitement… here’s what else is on my mind:

•  This is important for us.  Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode To Being At Home In Ourselves. AMEN, this is really beautiful. 

•  Here are the two long-reads I’m taking in this weekend:  how one man survived in the wilderness for 27 years (me without Instagram for 8 hours?) and the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death (very similar to my cat’s plan for my long travel absence?)

•  Finally, honesty about email:  Sorry for the delayed response.  Responses include… I didn’t know, I was busy, I didn’t feel like it, and I just can’t with you right now/ever. 

•  Drake just gave us MORE LIFE. 

•  Edible Manhattan wrote an article on Joy the Baker’s Five Essential Cookbooks.  That’s me.  I’m Joy the Baker. I won’t refer to myself in the third person often. Not to worry. 

•  Reaching back to the good ol days:  French Onion Soup Sandwiches.  

•  Sign me right on up:  Roasted Rhubarb Scone Sandwiches with Vanilla Bean Glaze.

•  “If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch and dinner without you.”  from Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.  

Much more soon.  I’ll see you out there in the world!

xo Joy

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  1. Liz | Flour de Liz

    March 25, 2017 at 7:37 pm

    So glad you came to Boston! Loved chatting with you! Safe travels on the rest of your tour and I look forward to trying out some Over Easy recipes soon!

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  2. Kaitlin

    March 21, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Can’t wait to see you at the Trident Cafe in Boston!!

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  3. JessicaD

    March 21, 2017 at 12:32 am

    So hoping to see you in Boston on Thursday! I will be just arriving back from Portland, Oregon, but my older daughter would love to come meet you (me, too!) — she is a huge baker and I know will be a huge fan! Fingers crossed the logistics all fall into place — I will do my very best! (And I promise not to embarrass you (or me) with any bicep worship!) Safe travels and it will be a thrill if what we see you in matches up with anything in the picture at the top of the page!

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  4. Carrie

    March 20, 2017 at 11:23 am

    This weekend I heard an interview on NRP with the journalist who Christopher Knight talked to over the course of months (maybe years?). It was SUPER interesting and he’s writing a biography (with Knight’s permission). Worth checking out and catching a listen if you enjoyed “The Guardian” piece!

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