OF BOOKS AND CEPHALOPODS Octopi are not the only eight-armed creatures out there. There are books! This weekend was the spring book sale in Ithaca. I don’t usually go...
Read MoreThis picture, of my mother (right) and her friend Dorie May, taken probably in 1946, is where I started out from in the kitchen. True it was taken 14 years before I was...
Read MoreOur friend Eloisa Stapledutton from NY was up this weekend. Normally visitors from Imperium get a big dinner but we had a prescheduled benefit bean dinner to attend for...
Read MoreIn my food post last week I wrote that if spring arrived we’d have grilled lamb, roasted parsnips and a fresh salad. It did and we did. Temperatures all weekend were...
Read MorePork Loin Chops, Mashed Potatoes and Cabbage Maybe it’s spring somewhere, but up here in the Finger Lakes it’s winter. The ground surface is grudgingly thawing...
Read MoreOctopus and Potato Salad A miracle happened this holiday season. My family ate all of the octopus. I have been enamoured of octopus since my early twenties, when you...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
"Frankel once again produces a thrilling futuristic dystopia which includes white-knuckle action, lots of sex and drugs, and a post-menopausal white-haired research scientist heroine who is trying to save the world from her own mad genius." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
"It's hard to put down this book, full of Frankel's autodidact ramblings and wild flights of language." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
SPECIMEN TANK
"There's more truth in this book than anyone in the biotech industries would care to admit. Plus, it's funny as hell." Buy on Amazon