Laura Harrison McBride

December 21, 2019 We've had a large panettone, still in its box*, on our kitchen counter for about two weeks now. It won't be opened...

That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. I spend a lot of time nattering at my husband, an engineer who works in digital ...

I might wonder, today, whether I should avoid honoring Mary Harris “Mother” Jones as a hero. Her beliefs suggest that I should. While she...

The sandwich, you might recall, was invented in England. It was supposedly created haphazardly as John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich...

Intro to Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett "Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know They try to sell you this jumbo...

I just saw a post on my Facebook wall that made me ponder something yet again: Why should one have to love America to live in it, and why...

I'm going to reframe something. And I'm going to tell you why. And I'm going to hope it sends anyone going through personal suffering—a...

Margaret Thatcher at Ronald Reagan's Funeral (Wiki Commons photo) To Margaret Thatcher, Alive and Dead Dear Mrs. Thatcher, you ruined...

This is not what I meant to write today. I meant to natter on about one or more of the ridiculous juggernauts of today's corporate...

There are two nations that it is probably impossible to write about―or even think or feel about―with any assurance one has anything at...

Today, I spent most of the day working on a Kindle Single about the recent UK election. It is not a funny book, not a humorous mystery...

Near Beer, also known as 3.2 beer. Blech! ("Tourtel Nearbeer" by KVDP - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -...

It's a punderful life. It must be; my husband's most frequent form of humour is the pun. I can tell when one's about to emerge; his lips...

I just saw an online ad about the four fruits & veggies to never eat. My first question is this: do they mean four fruits and four...

It's a long way from Glendale, a section of New York City where single family homes line leafy streets, a place hemmed in by murderous...

A gift, a poem of today, for today, to be included in my next anthology, out this summer. Meanwhile, please see Cow-Tipping and the Deep...

Fair warning: Easter is my least favourite holiday on the entire Christian calendar. Indeed, my antipathy to Easter is one of the main...

A version of this was first published Tuesday, July 27, 2010, on my blog Workable Food. When most people cook at the beach, it's hot dogs...

Shelf is in Key West. Don't ask. Just figure that in his second excursion as a reluctant PI, he had to be someplace. Someplace that...

The biggest issue for cities with snowstorms is this: Where are you going to put all that snow? NYC carts it off to barges and dumps it...