Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour Day 30

Candy Blog was still abed, with visions of the Chewy Spree she ingested the day before dancing in her head when I hit the non-cyber highway, bound for the summer palace (and glory!)

Thanks to all the Dirty Sugar Heads who followed the Virtual Tour, which lives in perpetuity in the sidebar at right.
Thanks to the 30 bloggers who let me park on their cyber lawns!

If you can't get enough of that Virtual Book Tour Flavor, my Mamalamadingdon tour commences August 1 - there will be a side bar on this blog, and you can sign up for daily directions to the blog du jour.

Hungry? Dirty Sugar Cookies morphs back into a pumpkin, next week!

Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour Day 29

Hungry Magazine said there'd be no crossing the finish line unless cyberspace was again subjected to my Hoosier accent and wandering anecdotes! I shudder to think that that voice will be permanently archived with those of Chicago's great chefs (some of whom must come from Indiana).

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The Girl Who Ate Everything got me going on my favorite places to procure cheap food in New York City and wound up with a martini-soaked tail of long time love in an expensive setting!

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The Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour tour bus rolled into Mama Cooks bright and early this AM, to be greeted with the following diagnosis:

"Based on her writing, I think Ayun might be manic."

Amen to that, sister!!!!!!! I had to laugh because I've been us since 4:30, hammering away on publicity related matters, so I can spend the day cleaning for the sublettors who arrive in two days, entertaining my visiting mother and stepfather, and horsing around with Milo's classmates at the kindergarten picnic.

I'm off to make the first of the several dozen cappuccinos I will have to drink today, lest I conk out mid-act on Pig Farm's opening night!

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Today's stop on the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour finds Bookseller Chick wondering what in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks one asks a woman who dares to be heinie... and figuring it out with flying colors in the very next paragraph! She must dare to be heinie too!

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Fisticuffs Q. Weighstation has a mind like a steel trap and the inside of my throat must look like Brenda Vaccaro's from all that screamin' yesterday. The Northwestern voice teachers who failed to rid me of my Hoosier accent would most definitely not approve.

the mer-mateys!

One-Eyed Stephen and Two-Eyed Milo
















Stephanie Fishnets and Drag Tail Lindsay-Abaire.

















Chloe Bones, Missing-School Moie and Inky Three Thumbs perched upon what passes for a rock on our urban shoreline.









Arrrrrrghhhhh, you cut my throat, matey, then I'll cut yourn!
















Stephanie Fishnets and Corncob John















Obedient Izzy's parents, Joyce and Fred, secret themselves 'neath the black hearted child's official crew umbrella, knowing that soon it's walking the plank they'll be!
















"Arrggh," says I to One-Eyed Stephen T-Shirt, "A Nancy Hot Pants sandwich twill go nicely with our margaritas."

the mer-mateys!
Originally uploaded by eatsdirt.

whooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Now THAT was one FiNE Mermaid Parade.
My brains is so scrambled, I will probably never again achieve semi-coherence, let alone recall the titles of the culinarily notable movies that I dispensed like fuggin' gumballs when I was Reading in Bed & Elsewhere.

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I come home from traveling and I"m jet-lagged. Amy comes home from Barcelona and immediately suggests that we should eat our way around the globe, then forage in each other's pantrys and come up with recipes. Meet us at Cooking with Amy for breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus the Cinderella-like transformation of the shambles in my cupboards!

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Today, the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour reveals to Sugar Savvy the number of degrees that separate Ferrara-Pan Jawbreakers from Ronald Reagan waking up without his legs.

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Today, the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour presents a handy excuse for Gastrochick and I to wax nostalgic about durian, mud pies and offal.

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I'm was incredibly touched that Daily Gluttony baked a cake to welcome the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour, baked it right off of page 22! I wasn't sure if anybody would try that one...

Take a look, and take a sec to post a comment while you're at it, wishing her a very Happy Birthday tomorrow! I hope someone bakes her a cake as nice as the one she baked us!

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I knew the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour Bus would have a smooth ride on the Written Road when editor Jen (pictured above) sent me her interview questions, each blank that I was to fill out followed by a ready-to-go exclamation on her end, such as "How interesting!" or "So inspirational!"

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Oh, my god, I think The Gurgling Cod just nominated me for a Nobel Prize!

Happy Father's Day!

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Before the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour rolls up to the blog du jour, perhaps we should educate ourselves as to just what in the Sam Hell a Parabasis is. Apparently it's the point in an ancient Greek play when all of the main actors leave the stage and the chorus gets to address the audience directly on a topic completely irrelevant to the subject of the play. Yeah, that sounds about right. Hera only knows what Isaac and I said into the little Radio Shack tape recorder he propped between us at the Boerum Hill Food Company, but it's a podcast now!

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I've got to hand it to Pasta Lover Foodie NYC, for not holding my hatred of the stuff against me or the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour. Instead, he offers up a recipe for Curry Seared Scallops with Mint Tapioca and Green Onion Sauce as "an interesting substitute"! That sounds like crazy talk, but I'm not scared!

Not only that, but I'm also a superhero. I swear. Why else would the hee-larious Young Adult author E. Lockhart invite me to take her Fly Survey? Because I can fly! Duh!

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When I asked Mrs. Deedop if she and Chopper Dave would be up for letting the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour swing by Belly Timber, she said sure, her cat could write a review for me. I've got to say, from what I've heard of this cat, there are more than a few parallels with the late, great, undeniably awful Jambo, and much as I loved that little bastard, he's the last person (cat, whatever) I'd want reviewing my book or any book, really.
Mrs. Deedop immediately switched to Plan B, a plan so nutty, I wonder if the cat had a hand in it.

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Imagine my pleasure today on the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour, when Karen and Andrew of Becoming A Chef announced their intention to lunch me up live at Franchia, "a tea shrine in another space and time". And they laid one of their awesome looking cookbooks on me too! Oh HELL yeah!


If your physical reality places you in the Bourough of Kings tonight, why not swing by Bookcourt? I'll be waddling in to give a reading at 8pm.

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Today, the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour peers through the window of the Vegetarian Dim Sum House, where
The Amateur Gourmet and I are discovered gorging ourselves on Monk Dumplings, Rice Flour Rolls with White Fungus and Golden Mushroom, & Treasure Balls with Assorted Flavor.

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Break out your earphones because Milo is making his (uncharacteristically laconic) podcast debut on the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour. Sufficiently tanked up on sugar from Leora's birthday party earlier in the day, we toddled over to
Eat, for an audio double-date with Leland and his mom.

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Much to our delight, Finslippy and I discovered that we'd completed our interview for the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Tour before we even got around to doing the interview! Cinchy! Memoirs are dangerous business, but there's always a chance that a flower can grow up through the sludge of misunderstanding and hurt feelings ... unless of course, you're commenter #3! Go get 'em!

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Hell yeah, Life's a Picnic, but the topic of the day on the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour is breakfast...which our host du jour is enjoying at some fancy B&B his lovely wife sprung on him this weekend, so he posted a day early...

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Today the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour revels in a Coney Island of the Mind (and Stomach), at the behest of my fellow Mermaid, Alice Ayers.

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Brandon Eats, but the eerie similarities between our lives don't stop there! Tune in today to the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour as she reveals all, and perhaps even then some, as I notice she's designated her entry "Part 1".

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Moorish Girl not only agreed to host the nightmare that is the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour, she wisely steered clear of the labor-intensive, high concept ideas my crazed brain kept coming up with (Mad Libs!!! One Book Cover Rendered Five Different Ways!!!!) in favor of a straight forward (for me) explanation of how and why you should start a zine.

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Today, the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour finds the editors of Cupcakes Take the Cake actively promoting their pro-cupcake agenda during the course of a seemingly innocuous interview!



(insane cupcake appears with permission of its unhinged creator, Ms. Natalie Dee!

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Day 5 of the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour finds CulinaryFool wondering what my favorite chapter is and how I came by my superhuman powers of recall!

I'm also appearing in the flesh tonight at Galapagos as part of a performance series called Smut, so if thine heiner is available, please hithee it to Williamsburg, the non-Colonial one.

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Today, the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour enters the kingdom of the Pie Queen to see what Her Majesty learned when she spent a couple of hours communing with us peasants in our squalid hut in Brooklyn.

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Before I start pounding the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour’s tent pegs intoVagablogging’s fertile ground, permit me to observe that, unlike yours truly, editor Rolf Potts actually lives up to his hottie author photo! Anyway, he got me reminiscing about Thailand, and this cake I baked for a new friend’s 21st birthday and from the way I carried on, you’d think I was writing No Touch Monkey! all over again. Wish I had me some Tiger Power.

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Today the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour visits
The Accidental Hedonist, whose insightful line of inquiry led me to denounce my mother’s oxtail warmer!

Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour Day 1

Rabbit, Rabbit, my friends. (I had this teacher in theater school who maintained that those should always be the first words out of your mouth on the first of the month. Beats me why, and lord knows two hundred some first of the months have passed me by with nary a rabbit, rabbit…Just think, maybe if I’d remembered, I’d be a star of stage and screen. Rabbit! Rabbit!)

Even for those of us who forgot to double our rabbits upon waking, today is still an auspicious day, as it is the first day of the Dirty Sugar Cookies Virtual Book Tour! Yay!!! YAY!!!! 30 blogs in 30 days and boy are my arms tired, though I don’t have to worry about whether there’s a sesame seed stuck between my teeth or any of those other authorial concerns that plague one on a non-virtual book tour. Every day, a fellow blogger will let me park my virtual tour bus on their cyber lawn, in celebration of my new book, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste. That’s the itinerary to your right, as well as a link to an email notification list that’ll keep you abreast of the blog du jour before self-destructing in a shower of candy on June 30.

Today’s Special is hosted by Beatrice, who’s persuaded me to wag my tongue a bit more than the royal Spin Doctor would prefer, but come on! Who doesn’t have pet peeves with regard to the food memoir genre?