Posts Tagged by Atlanta

Just an Update

November 11, 2010 Posted by Issa under Uncategorized
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Just some quick notes about what’s been going on with me this week: Keep Reading

How To Make Sweet Tea

July 6, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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I grew up in Southern Illinois, which is “northern” by sweet tea standards. When I moved to Atlanta, I had to get used to southern sweet tea, and eventually grew to love it the crunchy-sweet concoction given in southern restaurants. Eventually, it had been a decade since I’d had sweet tea any other way.

I started trying to learn how to make it at home, trying all kinds of sweeteners from honey to maple syrup. I tried various production methods from adding the sugar to the finished tea to starting with a simple syrup. Nothing came out tasting right.

Finally, one day I gave up and just made sweet tea the way my mother did when I was a child. It was perfect. As much as a drink can do so, it was like coming home. A decade of southern sweet tea hadn’t erased the fact that this was how I wanted my tea. Keep Reading

Penguin Tattoos

May 6, 2010 Posted by Issa under Body Modification
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Joshua and I finally got our penguin tattoos that I mentioned in this post. We got them done at Only You Tattoo in Atlanta, GA. We looked around a bit for a place to get them in Knoxville, but then we were going to be in Atlanta around the right time, so we just went with a place there that a friend recommended.

Pulling our penguins from the book Your Personal Penguin, Joshua got the penguin from the page with, “Look at these wings, so perfect to hold you.” I got the dancing penguin from the cover (mine’s on the left). They’re about the same size, the photos are just taken from different distances. Keep Reading