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Who doesn't love pizza!?

We hung some pencil drawings of pork chops and chickens in the corner of our house.  The three up top are chicken and the two below are pork chops.  I made them when I worked for a meat company, with the idea that I'd make them into icons for the website. Porterhouse pork chops. Chicken. I got the thread painting of butterflies and flowering plants from Java Car Service in Greenpoint.  It was late at night.  For $20 they sold it to me along with my ride back to Bushwick.  When they took it off of the wall there was a square behind it.  It was 2006.

It's that time crazy time of year again - production, production, production! This means pattern making, cutting, and, of course, fabric treatments. Check out some pics of the process. The incredibly talented Meagan Morrison - illustrator and blogger - came in to the studio to hand paint silk for our Fall 2012 samples. We love the fabric and the samples are STUNNING. Thanks Meags for your gentle touch! Today we hand printed the Fall 2012 jersey samples with custom-made stamps.  Mary, and our fab intern Angela, using one of our super-sweet printing stamps. This print is made up of grid-like squares. Keep your eyes peeled to see the final results! xx

  My Neighbor Eugenia by John Hoppin When it gets cold, you can put more clothes on. When it gets hot you can keep taking clothes off until you don't have anything on and it will still be hot. I went into the hallway, my neighbor had her door open. It was 113 on the heat index. It was hot in the hallway. My AC was set to 78 degrees, it had blown the electricity and I needed keys to the basement. She had a grimy plastic fan. 90 years old, she lay on the couch in a transparent night gown with la enfirmera sitting next to her. Hace calor. Si, hace calor. It's hot. Yes, it's hot. Last year...

I've been hanging out in the library again, reading Nathan Mhyrvold's Modernist Cuisine.  It's a six-volume encyclopedia of Modernist Cuisine, the foodie phenomenon resulting from the marriage of food and technology.  The books take a sober and scientific approach to food, but also a lush and seductive coffee-table-book giant-color-photograph approach.  The set cost about $650 when it first came out and they are down to a bit over $400.  I've been reading them at the library where they live in the reference room. Periodically while reading I'll take some notes or take a photo of the page.  The page above has two recipes on it.  The first one is for garlic cloves and olive oil in a mason jar, in...