GIVEAWAY WINNERS

you guys are funny bunnies. i loved your answers from the mole hill paper co. giveaway and i wish i could send all of you cards with all of your favorite foods on them.

i chose four commenters at random and here are the winners!​

tiff: 

chocolate...because duh, chocolate

olives...good alone, in pasta and in booze, enough said

mustard...i love a good, grainy mustard but sometimes the smell is terrible

pears...i'm very particular about the texture and ripeness about my pears and i'm too often disappointed

natalie:​

least favorite: pears. even though i love pears, i don't love them as much as chocolate, mustard and olives.

in between favorite: mustard. mustard brightens up so many things (especially sandwiches), but it's not quite as tasty as chocolate and olives.

in between favorite: olives. my mouth waters at the thought of olives. green, purple, black, pitted, with pimento, without pimento...i absolutely love them. i'm tempted to put them as my most favorite, but can anything go in front of chocolate? no.

most favorite: chocolate. because it's chocolate and it makes everything better and it is the most delicious edible thing on the planet. :)

nylon girl:​

1) chocolate - the food of broken hearts and happy hearts

2) pears - they're so deliciously sweet if you get the right one

3) mustard - a ham samich isn't right without it

4) olives - they're delish but weird and sometimes you get a bad one

​kim:

olive, mustard, chocolate, pear.

these are rated based on the number of times i eat them. pear - daily; chocolate - occasionally; mustard - rarely; olives - never (but olive oil is a ok :p)

if you're one of these four, send me an email (yeh.molly@gmail.com) and you'll soon get a little parcel!!​

-yeh!​

HOME

the mental state i am in right now. ​i'd pay good money to bring it back to new york. not in like a drug way, but in a wide open spaces, freshly cut grass smell, huge freaking suburban grocery stores, have the patience to sit and look out the window and do nothing sort of way. i've been bad about emails, i've tweeted perhaps once, and the above photos were only taken when i wasn't planted in front of the television watching game of thrones​. i ran a 5k yesterday. it was fun and i might pretend that that's enough real exercise to get me through the week.

i woke up this morning and i asked myself "self, what do i need to do today?" and i responded, "nothing." it was the greatest. i think i'll go to the library.

-yeh!​

SUMMER.

​my summer is here. ​i thought it would never come. i thought i would shrivel up in sweaters with soup all around me and an ad lib snooze button and a perpetual want to go on pinterest. but here i am with a suitcase filled with farming clothes, concert clothes, camel-riding clothes, and stretchy pants (that will allow for serious dumpling eating), and i am ready to go. brooklyn, be well! i am off.

here is where i am off to:​

week one: chicago. to see my family and turn 24.​

week two: hong kong.​ to eat dumplings and play the gong.

weeks three-five: minnesota.​ to learn how to farm on eggboy's farm!

weeks six and seven: israel​. for a culinary birthright trip.

weeks eight and nine: chicago and michigan.​ to chill, jump in a lake, and go to ravinia.

week ten: new york​. to teach kiddoes the drums.

also: massachusetts, throw a pig roast, california ​to celebrate mr. & mrs. stoop, and pennsylvania ​for summer camp.

the obsessive documenter in me will be consistently posting to show you things like my first tractor drive and my first dead sea dip, but there will be some stretches where my internet won't be reliable. so... i am looking for guest bloggers! if you want to put together a dumpling-centric post, such as a recipe or a poem about dumplings or a photo montage of the prettiest dumplings you ever saw, send me a shout at yeh.molly@gmail.com. 

happy summer, everybody!​

-yeh!​

CALEB BURHANS, SUPERHERO OF SOUND

with the amount of street cred that caleb has acquired in playing with people like paul mccartney and on things like saturday night live, you'd think he'd be one of those cocky buttface turds that lesser musicians too often find themselves at bars trying (and failing) to schmooze with. but he's not, he's totally the opposite. and i knew it immediately a bazillion years ago when we did music for 18 musicians ​and i was being a fan girl over the fact that i was playing right next to him and caroline and martha and mellissa and before i could muster up the gumption to just go and express my admiration for them, it was caleb that came up to me ​and said something to the effect of we have interacted on twitter before. and then he emailed me some pdfs of pretty marimba songs. 

over the years, it has been so lovely to catch his concerts and hear his music and run into him around the city. he is one of the nicest human beans i know, he always has that wonderful midwestern friendly vibe, and eggboy has a big man crush on him. ​

and, and he has an album and a baby coming out on the same day!​

it's a big deal. the album is called evensong and it's his first album of just his stuff. and it's beautiful, with unexpected turns, and rad instrumentation. and cool percussion bloopity bloops by our favorite chris. 

so i had him over for coffee and interviewed him about it. look, here it is!​

is this album more like an omelet or a taco? ​

definitely like an omelet. an omelet with avocado, mushrooms, onions, goat cheese, and maybe a little bacon. 

using only onomatopoeia, can you please tell us about your process for writing the pieces on this album?

buzzing, murmur, flutter, gush.  

how come you decided to wait this long to release an album of just your works?​

the world wasn't ready for my music until now. that's totally a joke. it wasn't so much a matter of deciding but rather a need to wait for everything to fall into the right place at the right time.

​your daughter is due the same day as your album! did you plan it this way? ​

hell to the no. ​

are you going to let your daughter dye her hair blue just like you?

if she's feeling it, it'll probably happen.

what’s your most personal track on the album?​

The Things Left Unsaid.  i've been in love with the cello octet as an ensemble since i was a kid. that, and the piece itself is about personal relationships and how they can either benefit or be hindered from a lack of dialogue between two humans.

​it appears that chris thompson is playing percussions on some of the tracks. are you aware that he makes a mean hot cross bun?

i'm aware of his love for spicy food and airport chili's but i didn't know about chris' mean hot cross buns. the more you know... ​

​thanks, caleb!

preview caleb's track, ​oh ye of little faith... (do you know where your children are?), below. evensong will be out july 30th on cantaloupe music. catch caleb performing with fifth house ensemble in chicago on june 2nd and with alarm will sound in new york on june 15.