Now we know coq au vin is made with chicken, but this weekend when my friend and I were facing two plump dead chickens on the countertop of her Queens apartment, I couldn’t help but think of that pitifully hilarious scene in “Julie and Julia” when Amy Adams’ character needs a pep talk from Julia Child to get […]
When my family moved to Queens, New York in 2007, everyone thought we were crazy. Why were these parents, who grew up on farms in Iowa, bringing their suburban kids to the hustle and bustle of the most diverse place in the United States? Why would they leave their 3,000-square-feet mountain home for a 1,000-square-feet […]