5 Quotes by Jenny Gardiner

It all seems so upside down. Upside down cake. I once had a spectacular mango upside down cake while on vacation in Jamaica. Drenched in caramelized mangos and saturated with Jamaican rum.

I open it, feel the rush of steam leaving the bag and smell the unmistakable aroma of Corfu.Loukoumades. Drizzled with honey and dusted with a flourish of cinnamon. Sugared perfection in the form of golf-ball sized fried dough.

I've been impeached. Well, that's just peachy. Yummm, like those heirloom Elberta peaches from the farmer's market on Block Island last summer. Juice that dripped down my arm with each bite I took. I made a fantastic peach tart, with black raspberry puree on a crispy bed of buttery phyllo dough. Served with a dollop of crème anglaise.

His marriage is on the skids. He told me so."I laugh minus even a hint of humor. "Oh, ho, ho. Of course he's going to tell you that. What do you think he'd tell you- that he loves his wife and that things are just hunky dory between them? That's not how these things work, in case you were too busy with your heavy petting to notice.""Heavy petting?""Yeah. Heavy petting. I should've directed the two of you over to the Tisch Zoo where petting is encouraged.

Between snatches of "I loved when you did that to me, bear!", "that felt SO good", "when's he going out of town again?", a couple of growls, a purr, and a few "pookies", "bunnies" and "babes" thrown in for good measure, I'm fairly certain I'm either at a petting zoo or else I've found myself wiping the steam off of the window of the intimate world of Jess does Dex. Or the other way around.