vino y yoga at pure yoga.

Oh, look: it’s everything Leslie loves in one place!

The spread above was preceded by a challenging, sweaty, wonderfully spiritual yoga class. Clearly, this was a good night.

Thanks to my dear friend Sofia, I was able to attend an event titled Vino y Yoga last Wednesday, hosted by my favorite yoga studio, Pure Yoga, and [...]

i heart ny.

Couldn’t resist sharing a few non-food photos from this year’s Jazz Age Lawn Party…

For a lot of years – more than half my life, I’d say – I’ve told people that I only want to put roots down in one place in the world.  If you’ve been reading for [...]

how to survive when you once again have to work over the weekend.

Green juice and cheap wine are about all the insight I’ve got right now.  Supposedly, life will be normal again by Wednesday.  Let’s hope.

on relationships.

I met a friend for drinks on Saturday night.

That seems typical.  And it was, in a way, except that this friend and I hadn’t seen each other for almost two years.

We met when I was 21: four months out of college, in my first month teaching English to Czech adults.  We were sitting next to [...]

new year’s eve at the redhead.

On December 31, 2010, my friends and I toasted to the man who first put pickled onions in a glass of gin.  [The line was stolen from Roger Sterling.]  It was appropriate: 2010 was the year I discovered the existence of cocktails that are savory rather than sweet.

In 2009, I celebrated the new year [...]