![]() ![]() I am generally partial to the NYT Cooking app, but for basic baking, I’ve found that Google is a better source. So it’s not like I could bake anything highbrow, is my point. Between us all there are six children under the age of 10. My sister and brother and their families are also here, in different houses nearby. ![]() Then I decided to bake something while we waited for the world to come alive. I heated up some pancakes for him (Charles makes large batches for the kid and we freeze them for the week). My husband, Charles, is usually up before I am, and it felt nice to beat him for once. I drank my coffee and watched tennis while we waited for everyone else to trickle downstairs. I love Dunkin’ as much as I hate Nespresso. I only use Dunkin’ medium roast ground coffee. My husband and I like drip coffee from the ancient Black & Decker maker, and my parents prefer Nespresso, which I hate. ![]() We live here in my parents’ house, and we all have different coffee rituals. We are in Fire Island for the summer, in a town called Saltaire. I went downstairs with Monty, who promptly turned on the Tennis Channel while I made coffee. But this is a food diary, not a once-you-have-children-you-never-sleep diary, so moving right along. Our younger son, Sandy, who’s 5, was in our bed and was taking all the covers. My 7 year-old son, Monty, is an early riser, and he shook me awake to show me a blister on his foot (it didn’t hurt he just wanted me to “take a look”). “There’s not a good character,” she says, “and some people really want books where there’s a hero.” Regardless, Rosenblum, who is the chief content officer at Bustle, is now working on her second novel while spending the summer on, yes, Fire Island - minus the murder and adultery, but with a fair amount of gossip (and some Aperol Spritzes). The response has been overwhelmingly positive - the New York Times called it “addictive” and Amazon has optioned it for a series - but its author, Emma Rosenblum, says it’s not for everyone. In many ways, the novel Bad Summer People was designed to be a perfect beach read: a murder mystery, set in a fictional Fire Island town, with all the cheating and gossip a reader might want. Rosenblum, who knows there are no rules on summer vacation: “It’s eight weeks of delicious, drunken chaos.” ![]()
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