Uptown Girl

I did the Cancer Research 'Race For Life' 5k (charity fun run) this morning and finished in 35.30! That's not bad considering I've not run properly for about 2 weeks cos it's been too hot/rainy here recently, I've only ever run by myself and I got the mother of all stitches about halfway round that felt like my ribs were being yanked out.

I put myself into the 'joggers' section cos I didn't think I could run it all (and I didn't cos of the stitch) but there were a lot of people who decided to walk after a short while and they walked sometimes 3 abreast in the middle of the track. I've never run in an organised event, but surely it's common sense to move over to one side if you're going slower than a majority of people? Especially as the track was only about a car's width. I nearly rolled my ankle a number of times just trying to get round these people!

I both hated it and enjoyed it at the same time. I can't wait to find another 5k to run (preferably not a charity event).

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• While biking to work saw all these people dressed as cows on a double-decker bus. Apparently today is Chick-fil-a’s Cow Appreciation Day. #


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• I’m at Riviera Cafe (225 W 4th St, at 7th Ave S, New York). http://bit.ly/GFEb4 #


• I just unlocked the “Adventurer” badge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/PyjK2 #


• I’m at Sushi Samba - 7th Ave (87 7th Ave South, at Bleecker, New York). http://bit.ly/FVFaJ #

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Please welcome Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic, who shares with us his latest jam recipe. ~Elise

I'm surprised that the food obsessed don't consider Ernest Hemingway a proper food writer. Go pick up a copy of A Farewell to Arms or "Big Two-Hearted River" and pick any random page and the characters are either drinking or eating, though it's more likely the former. He even titled his memoir, A Moveable Feast.

Recently when I was working on a paper for my a class in my Master's program that was discussing the use of food and drink in Hemingway's works as a form of escapism. Now after so much reading and writing I usually have to escape myself and do so through food, which proves once again that life imitates art (and academia, apparently). However after all this food lit. study I decided to see if I could cook up something inspired by Hemingway.

I decided to make a jam since Catherine in the novel A Farewell to Arms is pining for it as she crosses into Switzerland in a paddle boat in the middle of a storm to escape the Italian army. As for using apricots, Nick in "Big Two-Hearted River" downs a few cans of them in his pastoral journey for inner peace. Finally, since it was Hemingway I was dealing with, booze had to be used, no question. Finding a nice Riesling that paired well with the apricots I was all set to go. The result was a jam that I'm sure Catherine, Nick, Hemingway himself, or any literature lover will find perfect for smearing over some warm bread. The perfect accompaniment to your Summer reading.

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