The Literary Cook

I must confess that I’ve slacked off on everything this blog is supposed to be about. I haven’t been cooking much (although I did make my own spaghetti sauce for the first time the other day), and I haven’t been reading at all. That changed yesterday when I finally picked up my mom’s copy of [...]

these hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. ~Lucille Clifton, “homage to my hips” The world lost an amazing woman this weekend. Lucille Clifton, 73, died on Saturday morning at Johns Hopkins [...]