Death by Veggie Burger
on Oct 21, 2009 in RISD Veggie Burgers Should you be a long time reader of Curly Top and be blessed with a particularly excellent memory, you might remember back to my May post chronicling my short visit here to visit RISD. I made a rather dangerous assumption that the food here was excel...

Safe and Semi-Sound
on Oct 18, 2009 in RISD The foretelling of my life here at RISD were harsh. Counselors, sophomores, janitors all relayed horrific tales of sleepless weeks spent drawing pretzels while hanging upside down a la Michelangelo and singing perfectly-pitched opera. I heeded the ad...

2,545 miles
on Sep 13, 2009 in RISD Hello Bloggigans!Life is crazy right now, but I just wanted to let you know that Curlyland has officially re-located, 2,545 miles from it's original location in sunny, Southern Cali to the incredibly cold, extraordinarlily wet, wonderfully amazing Pr...

I'm Off
on Aug 29, 2009I'm off to get my curly but to the hair stylist to get the curls dyed a nice rosy hue and then down to USC to pick a few certain personages for an LA blogger meet up. Wish you were here!With Love,Emily...

Fish Dish
on Aug 26, 2009 in fish Little E Tuesday I told you all about my crustacean acclimation and the mental and emotional scars the episode inflicted. I painted a picture of the sad and sorry sight of my breakdown in, what was, unfortunately, slightly less than tasteful. However. I did n...

Book Cake
on Aug 23, 2009 in cake Barnes and Noble Want to see the product of my hard labor (detailed in yesterday's post)? One Book Cake coming up. I think everyone enjoyed it because it was gone in under an hour... lol. With Love,Emily...

Cheesiness
on Aug 22, 2009 in cake Barnes and Noble Seeing as Thursday was national Take Your Cheese to Work Day and my last day of slavedom at Barnes and Noble I thought I'd up the cheesiness factor and bring a sappy letter and some sort of baked goods to thank my fellow booksellers for their patienc...

An Apology
on Aug 20, 2009 in shrimp To my darling readers,As I read over your comments on my last post I was disheartened to see that some of you were hurt or angered by my attempt at a little carnivorous humor. I was not, in any way, making fun of vegetarianism or veganism or making l...

Crustacean Acclimation
on Aug 19, 2009 in shrimp Pbu fish recipe My father brought home a particularly emotional package from the grocery store last Tuesday--a sheet of blue styrofoam, wrapped in plastic, encasing eight former occupants of the big blue Pacific. After a long discussion with my pediatrician, this fo...

What I've Been Up To
on Aug 14, 2009Dear Darling Bloggigans,I swear I didn't fallen off the map into oblivion. I didn't disappeared into thin air. I just really needed a little break. Not from you all.But from cooking. Has anyone else ever fallen into a cooking rut? A place where the v...