High noon on Thursday, I began the Northward drive from Miami. Passing power lines, cows, and little else, I fell asleep that night listening to crickets by the lake behind my parents’ house in Atlanta. The next morning, my beautiful sister Kassandra woke early to breakfeast with me the Flying Biscuit—where the grits really are [...]

I’m moving to New York for an incredible new job with PopTech, a network of social innovators I am excited to join as their Digital Content and Community Manager in Brooklyn, NY starting at the end of June. In the meantime, I am delighted to announce I’ll be part of the Knight Foundation gathering of [...]

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Happy National Doughnut Day 2009! Last April I fried doughnuts in my mother’s kitchen because Krispy Kreme original glazed become even more beautiful then. I’ll stand by what I wrote when I originally posted this (great comments on that post), explaining the recipe: Why fry a doughnut that has already been fried? A turn in [...]

Last week’s New York adventures began with drizzling rain and delicious cupcakes at Royale—chocolate with sea salt icing is worth a trip to the neighborhood. And clear orb-like containers protect the small cakes as you bring them with you into whatever weather outside (here, Alice and Jess smile at the cupcake box that did almost [...]