I've never tried Ethiopian food, but it sounds like it might be good--I've just recently discovered how yummy Indian food is, so I think I'd like to try Ethiopian.
Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone!
Allyson, I've been thinking that, if your publicist doesn't want to do this, I will--when your book comes out, I'll buy an extra copy and send it to Nick Digilio at WGN radio, who is a big pop culture and genre TV/movie geek. He's interviewed Tim on air at least once that I know of, so I know he'd really get into your book!
I stopped at Walgreen's to buy a drink (hey, look, they have a Cherry Coke Zero version), and Reese's peanut butter eggs were on sale. So I obviously had to buy a couple.
The guy at the register pointed out some new Reese's candy crunchy bar thing up front and asked if I wanted to try it. I had to explain to him that Reese's peanut butter eggs were the candy of Easter dating from my childhood, and that I was sticking to them.
Yeah, Walgreens has been having their cashiers upselling for the past few months. But, I agree with you--Reese's easter eggs are the One True Easter Candy (although I do love the Cadbury mini-eggs that are pure milk chocolate with the hard candy shell--yummmm).
The One True Easter Candy = Peeps
But you have to actually want to eat Easter candy. I don't want to eat Peeps. I don't eat fluorescent food. Except for Cheetos.
Jessica, I'd give some of the fish dishes a try--ackee and saltfish, rundown mackerel, escoveitched fish. The sort of sides you get with those breakfasts foods would be fried plaintain (which I'm sure you've tried), boiled plaintain (nice, but not as nice), boiled green bananas (delicious when mashed with butter right there on your plate), boiled (nasty) or roasted (delicious) breadfruit, fried bammy (cassava cakes), festival (like johnnycakes, I've been told, but sweeter), yams (not what you call yam in America), fried dumplings...the list continues and continues
Shrift, have you had lunch yet? I'm free right now! And hungry.
Augh. To call, or to e-mail? If I e-mail everyone at Small Branch Office, at least they'll know I'm actually from Parent Company, not that this will help matters, because no one at Small Branch Office will know the answer to the question I'm going to ask. They never do.
