Tinky Weisblat
commentatorTinky “Dakota” Weisblat is writer, a singer, and a historian, who lives in Hawley, Massachusetts.
Weisblat has bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College (her mother's and grandmother's alma mater!), a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Texas, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee.
She has worked in a variety of settings—teaching college, editing the catalog at the Museum of Television & Radio, introducing movies at a French film festival—but her first love is writing.
Her favorite topics are cooking and popular culture; she likes to explore the connections that link food, story, and song, and has an awful lot of fun while working, singing, and cooking.
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Commentator Tinky Weisblat was unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election. But looking into the history of Thanksgiving has helped lift her spirits. -
I agree with the creator and star of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, who said performers are “like Tinker Bell in the play ‘Peter Pan.’ We need applause… -
On Tuesday I worked the afternoon and evening shift — from 2 p.m. until 10:45, when all of the votes had been counted and recounted and checked once… -
Most of the response to a recently-published memoir of mine was enthusiastic. People liked its message of hope, its humor, and its stories about my… -
I’m sure I’m not the only home baker to have fallen in love with Truman Capote’s reminiscence, “A Christmas Memory.” Published in 1956, it sketches the… -
Tears flooded my pillow on the eve of my fifth birthday.I couldn’t stop thinking about the milestone to come. First I would be five, I reasoned. Then I… -
Improbably, one of the triggers that brings my father to mind is herring. When my mother and I were away, his customary evening meal was a martini with…
