Because this never ceases to be fun, and because it’s number 3 on my list of procrastination activities (after checking email/facebook and watching cat videos), voilà the latest word cloud of this very blog you’re so kind to visit. (Wordle your own stuff here.)

I’m back into it. I’m writing an article about Dione Lucas and am discovering the joys of her all over again. In Googling about, I stumbled upon this, which my Google Alerts somehow failed to show me when it appeared last year. I’m gratified to see that Dione made Time’s Top Ten TV Chefs list. You can play, too, by rearranging the list. Annoyingly, though, you can’t add any other contenders. If Julia Child gets knocked out of first place on yours, let me know who you put as number one, will ya?

Lucas comes in at #5

One of my favorite activities is just shooting the breeze (strange phrase, must look up origin). It turns out I enjoy it just as much when it’s on a stage, under harsh lights, in front of many many people who I cannot even see (+ 11 simulcast locales around the U.S). So it was with this lighthearted attitude that I enjoyed the “Food on the Tube” panel at the 92nd St. Y last night. Moderator Alexandra Leaf invited me, Charlie Trotter, Amanda Hesser and Padma Lakshmi (yes, she looks like that from 6 inches away, too) to talk food TV. I would have liked to talk for longer, but it was late, and Padma has a new baby and I had to eat the incredible macarons brought to me from Bouchon Bakery by my friend Jen. I wanted to keep the cool 92 St Y mug that I was compulsively drinking water from so as not to have a coughing attack. But I got an even better bit of swag – Charlie gave us each a copy of his gorgeous cookbook:

And if that weren’t enough airing of WWWE for one week, my friend Michael asked me to be a Life.com guest editor for this collection of fabulous cooking show photos that he found in the archives.