Hello dear hearts! I hope this finds you taking your Sunday slow and easy. I’m in Philadelphia spending some time and looking forward to a few days back in New Orleans soon. I’ll be making biscuits, investigating all the surfaces that Tron has turned into a scratching post in my absence, and watering the garden. These Spring days are fine, indeed. Wouldn’t you say? Sending you my love… and also these articles from around the internet:
• I feel like I’m still trying to catch up with all that is happening in Syria right now. Here’s what I’m reading to educate myself. Assad kills at least 85 with chemical weapon attack.
Seven Lessons From Trumps Syria Strike
• Wow wow wow wow wow with the world: Girl was found living among monkeys in India.
• Offering you this restaurant review of La Cinq in Paris. “A main of pigeon is requested medium, but served so pink it just might fly again given a few volts. It comes with brutally acidic Japanese pear and more of that flavourless watercress purée.” Sounds delish and the price is right.
• We sure do love a list, and white dudes making food… but maybe that’s changing some? The World’s 50 Best Restaurant List Is Also A Bad Bucket List.
• I met these lovely ladies at my book signing in Portland and I think their blog is just lovely. An intention for April: Balance.
• Classics: Don Rickles on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
• Do you have the new book Dinner by Melissa Clark? It’s what I’m opening next in my kitchen.
• I think this one is a lesson in keeping your face to yourself, mostly: Appearing in stock photos has been the biggest mistake of my life.
• Sometimes I watch Oprah interviews on YouTube because I miss her: Oprah interviews JK Rowling. The intersection of perceived failure and surety is profound.
• I feel like this is a dye project that my maj Tracy could get behind: Watermelon T-shirts.
• Feeling festive? Hot Cross Biscuits. I’m definitely making these again when I get home. AStotheAP.
Enjoy this day. I hope there’s sunshine!
xo Joy
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The stock photo thing makes me think of Joey on Friends, who was on STI posters around NYC. Public health education is good, though!
Oprah is in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, HBO, April 22 (and plenty of other times, I’m sure).
Marisa
Thanks so much for posting that throwback JK Rowling/Oprah interview. Stellar!!
preethi
Wow i love the Watermelon T-shirts
Shahar
If you love and miss Oprah (me, too!) then you should check out the podcast Making Oprah. It’s addictive, relaxing and inspiring (i.e. “Stay in you own lane,” and “the only two emotions are love and fear”). https://www.wbez.org/series/making-oprah/db4fff18-4828-4589-b03f-8dd50a5adbbe
Brittany
Great post and good reads I’ve bookmarked. Planning a trip to Portland this Fall, what places do you recommend to visit? Food and non food. I’m going home to NOLA this Wednesday and can. not. wait! Boiled crawfish, Pho Tau Bay and Po’ Boys here I come!
Abby
Thank you so much for your book signing in Philly yesterday! It absolutely made my month, you were so warm and funny! (and I was so deeply awkward when you signed my book!)
nicole
joy, if you’re still in philly and in need of some good eats–artisan boulanger patissier for pastries, high street in market for a bag of brioche buns, dizengoff for hummus, whole foods fairmount for the largest urban whole foods in the country, and dan dan for amazing dan dan noodles. :) oh, and amis for jalapeno bucatini! x
Lindsay | With Salt and Pepper
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is the BEST!!! I haven’t watched it in far too long but what a great reminder. Cheers!!
gringalicioustori
Such a great Sunday post. There are so many interesting articles and those hot cross biscuits do sound amazing!
Namcy
Fab sweater!
What Mum Loves
I love the watermelon t-shirts! <3
Jada
I love your blog! And your sweater…where’d you find it?
Sarah M
“The canapé we are instructed to eat first is a transparent ball on a spoon. It looks like a Barbie-sized silicone breast implant.” OMG. LMAO
francetaste
I am glad to hear the monkey girl was a fake. Children are so vulnerable.
But the stock photo story is hilarious. He’s pretty hot, all the same.
PJ
So excited to see you in Nashville at the Country Living Fair. Save me a copy of your new book!
Nancy k
Happy Sunday Joy! I hope you book your is going well.
Just a little FYI: I read this morning that the “girl found living with monkeys” story has been found to be not true. She actually was picked up on the side of a road…no monkeys in sight and it is believed she has some pretty severe special needs. Police are presently attempting to gain more information regarding if she was abandoned or if she ran away .
I will be making those Hot Cross Buns this week…can’t wait!