More on Twists in Strauss-Kahn Story: New York Tabloid Calls DSK Accuser a Hooker

Later the same day: I've just now seen this posting by Lauren Kelly at the Alternet site, about an article in New York Post smearing the maid at Sofitel Hotel who reported that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to assault her.  The Post is evidently carrying a headline calling Strauss-Kahn's accuser a hooker.

Missouri Congresswoman Stuck in 1967, re: Marriage Rights

Republican Congresswoman from Missouri, Vicky Hartzler, told a conservative gathering in D.C. last month that permitting same-sex marriage is akin to permitting polygamy, incest, and three-year-old drivers.  And then she added: 

Lynn Parramore on Twists in Dominique Strauss-Kahn Story

Lynn Parramore, on the initial skepticism with which many of us have long greeted reports by women that they've been raped: 

Alice Walker on Chickens, Spiders, and the Human Species as a Test

From Alice Walker, The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses & Babe: A Memoir (NY: New Press, 2011):

We Have a Multicultural Meal, and Think of Alice and Her Chicken Angels

So Steve and I go a Vietnamese restaurant in Houston, and as we're happily slurping our bowls of pho, the two attractive young Mexican women at the table next to ours are chatting about recipes.  Brownies.  Jalapeño cornbread, the ultimate Southernization (some might say bastardization) of a Tex-Mex dish that's not Mexican in the least.  Except that it contains jalapeños.  And cornmeal.

Cooking to Save the Planet: Stuffed Summer Vegetables, Creole Style

So, readers keep asking me to write more about food, and I hardly need encouragement to do that.  And I hope that, as I do so, I'm not boring readers who visit this site for other reasons.  I'll continue to try to set the table here with dishes of sufficient variety that a diverse group of visitors may find something to their liking on the table.

Alice and Her Chicken Angels: Still Learning, After All These Years

From Alice Walker, The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses & Babe: A Memoir (NY: New Press, 2011):