Jersey Shore

I curse the Jersey Shore cast for giving tattoo-inspired T-shirts a second life. But the show is ridiculously over the top. And the nicknames!

Get your Jersey Shore nickname here.

Mine is: The Opportunity.

Meatball Maven

I'm now a published photographer of meatballs. Of kibi, to be exact. I originally posted a photo of the Lebanon-via-Yucatan deep-fried meatballs on this blog in August 2007. Last June, I received a request to republish the picture in Go, the in-flight magazine for AirTran Airways. Food photos? A magazine that includes my surname in its title? It was fate--I had to say yes!