Marjorie Ingall is a columnist for Tablet Magazine. Before that, she was The East Village Mamele at The Forward. She’s a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and has written for many other publications, including the late, lamented Sassy, where she was the senior writer. She hails from Rhode Island (The Biggest Little State in the Union) and is happy to translate the words “bubbler” and “cabinet” for you, as well as to rhapsodize about coffee milk. Nowadays she lives in New York with her husband, children, and two extremely vocal cats. She's also at marjorieingall.com.