Love food? Then you”l love this blog. It’s about food, but it’s also about plenty of other things. For example, today’s post about Miss Tea’s new dining room table is a kind of treatise on time management, a manifesto on living well, a celebration of the dining table as lifestyle:

I want regular opportunities for shared meals that last late into the night, conversation and laughter floating out the open window. I wanted a dining table.

At which point Miss Tea finds a perfect table, it goes on sale, the guy who’s selling it holds it for 10 days because he, too, is from the Bay Area, neighbor helps her move the table in…

And so I have a dining table, which often becomes my desk as I write during the day…Sitting at one end of it I have a view out through the living room windows and into trees of the Arboretum beyond, and the bar/counter of the kitchen is just to my back. A pot of soup bubbling away on the stove is just steps away, within stirring distance. Long-time readers might remember that I once said I wanted an office that was adjacent to my kitchen and had a view out the window and I think I may have got it—at least a makeshift version of it, at least for a while.