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Gina’s Black Panther Baptism (opens the original)
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It would be years, decades, really, before the strangeness of my daughter Gina's baptism sunk in, which tells you something not just about my state of mind at the time but also of the times themselves.It was July 14, 1968. I was 18. Dishin’ It Up, with Michele Anna Jordan is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="ema
Cream Is Communism! (opens the original)
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From the late 1980s through the early 2000s, I was a restaurant critic, reviewing restaurants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, first for 101 North, a magazine that didn’t have as long a life as it deserved, then for The Paper and its new name The Sonoma County Independent (now the North Bay Bohemian), followed by San Francisco Focus Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and, finally, The San Francisco Chronicle. I did it because I was asked to and because I was good at it, but I never loved it
My First Dinner Party In Hattiesburg, Part II (opens the original)
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My first dinner party in my new home was on July 25, to celebrate my daughter Nicolle’s birthday. Because I am including recipes and photos in the stories, I had to split it into two parts, as a single essay would have been too long to send. You can read the Part I here. Four of the guests that night were vegetarians who eat fish and dairy and so creating a menu all of us could enjoy was no challenge. I could make aioli, which calls for eggs! I could use fi
Where Have I Been? (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Two weeks ago, I was working on my next Substack essay, about the second part of my daughter’s birthday dinner party. Without going into detail, as it is pretty complicated, I have lost 100 percent of my life’s work, 30+ years of writing, photography, and more. One bad actor at a major company caused the meltdown and I have been working on restoration every day. Things are now in the hands of Drive Savers, the company that works with Apple. They have recovered files from a NASA sate
My First Dinner Party in Hattiesburg, Part 1 (opens the original)
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On July 25, the day before my daughter Nicolle’s birthday, I hosted my first dinner party here in Hattiesburg. There were eight of us, which is the number my farm-style table holds comfortably. Because I did most of the shopping and prep on Friday, Saturday’s cooking was almost stress-free, except for a few glitches: My two food mills broke and I did not have as much fideo as I thought I did. I hauled out my food processor and made a quick trip to a great Mexican market that is about 5 minutes f
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