Dear friends,
I have spent part of today, as well as the days leading up to the Blogathon, encouraging you to visit the other participants. I still encourage you to do so, but I'd also like to encourage you to go visit my dear friend Moira at Who Wants Seconds? Moira had been on a bit of a sabbatical, and I had thought that she was caught up in the general maelstrom of life (which included the Tube and bus bombings in London on July 7; Moira lives in the U.K., although thankfully she and her family were fine). It turns out that Moira took some time off after receiving some of what she describes as constructive criticism from a fellow food blogger. I am scratching my head because I don't know how Moira could have made her site better than it already was. But then, she is a nicer person than I am, and I trust her judgment.
It's all a moot point, anyway, as she is back, and she is posting this amazing little charmpot of a dessert, created by my own personal kitchen love god, Nigel Slater. If you go, I promise you'll be enraptured. But don't just go for the dessert. Go because Moira called me this morning, from the U.K. to wish me good luck and Godspeed during Blogathon. If you want to see what sort of person would do something like this, and the generosity of spirit that abides within her, then run, don't walk, to her page. It will make you thankful for the internet all over again.