I'm Rebecca Lando.
I'm an award-winning writer, producer, and editor and upcoming cookbook author based in New York City.
In 2009 I launched Working Class Foodies, a cooking show that creates affordable meals from local, seasonal, and/or sustainable ingredients. Working Class Foodies is a part of YouTube Next Chef and airs on NBC New York's Nonstop Foodies.
I wrote, produced, and edited FilmFan, an award-winning weekly movie review show, for MSN from 2010-2011.
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WORKING CLASS FOODIES
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Cookbookin’!
Here’s just a tiny part of what Brendan and I have been up to the last couple of days.
Buy all the eggs, make all the challahs. I am truly only a Jew culinarily.
The Caging of America; Why do we lock up so many people?
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncoöperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized. Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners. Wealthy white teen-agers in baggy jeans and laceless shoes and multiple tattoos show, unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.
- In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik writes about mass incarceration and criminal justice in America: http://nyr.kr/A75iOm
Photograph by Steve Liss.
Signed the lease on our new LA apartment today. Please take a moment to help me acknowledge the awesomeness of my new kitchen - it is at least 6 times larger than any kitchen I’ve had in NYC.
Blessed Be. Hallelujah. Amen.
KITCHENS
So, guys, are there any other vacancies in your building? And if not, can I just live in your kitchen? Dead serious. (And if not, congratulations on a fantastic find!)
Seven years ago, when I was just starting to build a career in film, there were basically three venues for video: movies, TV, and select audience stuff (in-store promotions, EPKs, etc). There was less work to go around. Now, because of YouTube and sites like it, the jobs have quadrupled, at least. Maybe the pay is a little less than what it could be but there are so many more opportunities. So much of my income the past few years has come from YouTube and online videos. And because of those jobs, I get bigger work, too. So the idea that the old way is right and the YouTube or online way is wrong is just pure bullshit. It’s total bullshit. Have you even gone to the movies lately? No, because it makes you feel like a jerk for paying $12, $14 for a crappy experience. The Internet isn’t doing it wrong; Hollywood is.
my very smart boyfriend who is far too often far too quiet (aka Kit).
“Yeah, Jurassic Park references are, like, very in right now.” - Kit
A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire motion picture industry in 2010.
The good news is that the numbers are wrong. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology,” which is polite government-speak for “these figures were made up out of thin air.”
The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers. (via jimray)
Elliott Smith, Bleecker Street, 1993. I think the photo credit goes to JJ Gonson?
Don’t let the open eye fool you; my research assistant is asleep on the job.
Interns these days.
In retrospect I may have been more drunk than I thought last night.
Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers by Tim Mantoani
Griffith Park or Middle Earth?
“Seven Day Fool” by Etta James from The Second Time Around (1961).
