 Garden '07
It's early spring - the season when friends from Southern California, Texas and Florida start calling to razz you about how their lettuce and radishes are almost ready, the tomato plant looks as if it belongs in "Jack and the Beanstalk" and, alas, the tulips are already fading since they've been up so long.
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 Zen
and the art of semi-glossing
Sooner or later, every adult must come to terms with a paintbrush.It
could be when landlord says he will paint your apartment according
to the lease schedule -- once every 10 years. Or when you realize
the industrial taupe sprayed on your townhouse and hundreds of others
is making you clinically depressed. Or when you buy a house and
rue the term "fixer-upper."
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The idiot-proof indoor garden
It doesn't matter what season it is, my gardening thumb is as black as a hockey puck. In fact, I've never really had a piece of land to grow anything, and up to this point my attempts at indoor gardening have led to dried-up plants and a dead cactus (which I'm told is very difficult to kill).
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Eating antiquity: The original fusion
Even if you're not in ancient Rome, now you can eat as the Romans did.The copy of the Apicius at the New York Academy of Medicine is not just old. We're talking ninth-century old -- the oldest known cookbook in the West. So it's surprising how much recipes from our long-ago ancestors reveal about the way we eat now.
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