For reasons having to do with the fact that I had no idea how much work it would be and that I would have had no idea what else to get my friend Julie for her 40th birthday, I baked 100 cupcakes last week for Julie’s milestone party. Yes, you read that right: cupcakes. In [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘cupcakes’
August 19, 2009
Evidently It Really Doesn’t End
A lazagna cupcake, spelled with a “Z.” What more is there to say?
It actually looks pretty darned delicious, and the long list of options, including Colorado lamb ragu and wild boar bolognese, would all point to the fact that the guy behind these learned a thing or two from Gino Angelini, who he worked [...]
August 14, 2009
A Cupcake a Day
Somehow, thanks to the power of Ed Levine’s website Serious Eats, I have gotten a reputation as something of a cupcake hater. I don’t like to think of myself as a hater of anything, least of all inanimate object as insipid and inconsequential as a cupcake. So just to clear things up here, let me [...]
April 3, 2009
Cupcake Nation Strikes Again
This was printed—PRINTED!—in the one newspaper that may actually survive these times. The Gray Lady. The one and only, the trusted and revered… New York Times. Once a powerful force spreading information formerly known as “news.”
No Drill Sergeants, ran the header. And things went downhill from there.
CupcakeCamp, a gathering of cupcake lovers [OMFG PLEASE SHOOT [...]
February 18, 2009
A Think Piece About Cupcakes? Think Again.
When I saw the teaser for Corby Kummer’s story on Cupcakes in an online promotion for the March issue of The Atlantic, I got excited, thinking that finally someone had stepped back to look intelligently at this whole unintelligible cupcake craze.
The teaser went like this:
Not So Guilty Pleasure – The Atlantic (March 2009)
Corby Kummer explains [...]
