The author on the cookbook she loves: 'Having recipes that allow me to cook with ingredients I can actually find is invaluable'
Courtesy of the retailers. Photo: Courtesy of the retailers. If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked writer Laura Lippman, whose new novel Lady in the Lake comes out later this month, about the double boiler, gin, and niche candies she can’t live without.
$18 at Amazon Buy Goldenberg's Peanut Chews Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews — which are basically peanuts and molasses covered in chocolate) — are super easy to find in Baltimore , because they’re made in Pennsylvania. They’re not so easy to find in other parts of the country, which is a shame, because they’re incredibly delicious.
$30 at Bed Bath & Beyond Buy Cosabella Bella Satin-Trim Long-Sleeve Pajama Set I would live in pajamas if I could. I often put them on around 3 p.m., because being a stay-at-home writer turns you into a bit of a savage, and because I hate clothing that touches my body. These pajamas are the best. I found them on a trip to Miami in May, where it was excruciatingly hot, and still, they didn’t suffocate me. They are so soft, and they just look nice.
$31 at Amazon Buy $31 at Amazon Buy Hendricks Gin My father loved martinis — he used cheap gin that he kept in the freezer, because he believed that raised the alcohol content. Since he died in 2014, I’ve become a major martini drinker . In the last three years, I’ve tried many, many types of gin: Empress, Tanqueray, Number 10. Then my former colleague at the Baltimore Sun, William F. Zorzi, who has a sort of old-fashioned newspaper editor/His Girl Friday feel about him, recommended Hendricks.
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