Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist, and author of the upcoming book My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha (Plume, 25 February 2014). She is also a salad enthusiast, and a cultivator of spooky things.
Since starting Ask a Clean Person in March 2011, I've received close to 3000 emails from people with questions for me. I have read all of them! Even the ones that I got when I was on my honeymoon and not at all using the internet which, wow. I need another honeymoon. (I read those emails, like, a month later when the guilt started to set in and I'd finished writing my thank you…
Everybody knows that salad is the best part of the meal. Wait. That might not be right? But … could it be? I believe it might. You see, my superpower is making incredibly good salads. It is, admittedly, a strange superpower to have but we don't exactly pick these things, now do we? So from time to time, I'll check in with you to let you know…
The Fourth of July demands two things: Potato salad and red, white and blue everything. Well. The Fourth of July also demands fireworks. And ice cream sandwiches. And grilled meats. And something for the vegetarians. The Fourth of July is actually a really demanding brat, isn't it? You never hear Flag Day getting all mouthy like that. Potato Things: Just for the sake of hushing up the Fourth of July's fresh mouth, the potato things…
