Comments on: Food as Fashion: What Goes Around…

By: Michelle @ Find Your Balance

Michelle @ Find Your Balance — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:35:52 +0000

I’m glad you are home and back to real food! That’s hilarious about Jamie hitting heads of iceberg like baseballs. You could always use cabbage leaves instead?

By: CBH

CBH — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:36:19 +0000

My daughter has tachycardia too, though hers is being controlled with medicine for now. I know by proxy how frightening it is, and I hope they can fix yours for good. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s both sad, funny and somehow inspiring. The recipe looks good too, lol.

By: Seed Monger

Seed Monger — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:45:04 +0000

I can so totally relate. I was in the hospital a couple of times last year (also nothing serious) and it really is the iceberg lettuce that added interest to the meals. I guess that says a lot about the meals but still, you’re dead on. you might find now that you’ll start eating iceberg regularly; after I got home I was making all kinds of wraps with it.

By: lisaiscooking

lisaiscooking — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:36:54 +0000

Glad to see you’re back! I can appreciate iceberg for its crisp, cool qualities. There’s no better lettuce on a taco in my opinion. Your wraps look fantastic, and I’m going to look for the chili sauce.

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Sophia – what an ingenious way to treat anorexia. Do you suppose it was the intent or just a fortunate side effect of institutional food? You have such a beautiful food blog — congrats!

Spot — yes, the backyard mint. I also have something that looks suspiciously like a radish root starting to form on top the soil. Very exciting!

By: Sophia

Sophia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:30:09 +0000

oh my goodness. I know exactly what you mean. hospital food SUCKS. so bad, when I was hospitalized for anorexia and was discharged, I was actually LOOKING FORWARD to eating non-hospital food.

By: lo

lo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:17:39 +0000

So glad you’re back; however short the hiatus, you’re missed.
I must admit, you’ve inspired me to at least contemplate letting an iceberg back into our house. Lettuce wraps never manage to cross my mind, it seems — but they’re really quite lovely, so I’m not sure why.

Am also looking forward to grilling up a bit of tofu. Will have to keep Linghams in mind as a marinade. Can’t argue with a little bit of kick, after all.

By: Spot

Spot — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:21:13 +0000

I now have the Justin Timberlake song in my head thanks to you.

Love the mint photo, it’s so vibrant. Your backyard garden?

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:41:52 +0000

My sister in law from Taiwan introduced us to Linghams. Apparently it has cachet with the Chinese-American population, so you’ve got good taste! We use it a lot for braising, meat of course but i bet you could do the tofu. I’m sorry you’ve been dealing with health issues, but I have to say, you make the hospital sound like an adventure. It’s hard to worry about you when you’re writing so entertainingly. Glad you’re free now.

By: tea

tea — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:03:55 +0000

“all of the culinary interest of a cocktail gherkin — and none of the salt”. very cleverly said. you have a way of describing things and i look forward to reading what you’ll come up with each time.