I had compiled a list of things I'd wanted to comment on but now I am too lazy. I bought two books today from Ivy Books/Murder Ink: Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and Diane Ackerman's "An Alchemy of Mind." I'm a huge fan of Ackerman's "A Natural History of the Senses" and "A Natural History of Love" and I'm eager to see what she's whipped up in this book.

Also, I was a foodie a) before I knew I was a foodie, b) It was cool to be one and c) before the word "foodie" fell into common usage. Yesterday I made a superb soup with spinach, chicken stock, milk and a butter/flour roux. No, it was not cream of spinach.