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linen apron as improvised table cloth

When Ellen Silverman was over photographing Prunes in Armagnac for our holiday food gift post, we were hunting through our collection of tablecloths to use as a background. Nothing seemed right. It was the end of the day and the light was waning. In desperation, she threw a big linen apron of Sally’s onto the…

broke-down-taxi-on-the-expressway improv

What do you do when the car service car you hired to take you to the airport during rush hour stalls on the Long Island Expressway on your way to catch a transatlantic flight? I’d been sitting in the sweltering car for 20 minutes on that bleak, scary highway, waiting for the dispatcher to call…