Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I was wary when Amy wanted to eat at Hu Kitchen before a movie this weekend. One look at the menu and I could tell it was super healthy – and not in the sneak veggies into your kids’ meals sort of way. The word “organic” was thrown around a little too often for my…
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This inspirational Duracell ad shines a spotlight on Derrick Coleman and the obstacles he has had to overcome as a deaf running back for the Seattle Seahawks. This guy could be playing in the Super Bowl – watch out. 2014 brings a major change to the Boy Scouts who will begin allowing openly gay children…
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Not to brag, but I called Harold Dieterle’s win on the first episode of the first season of Top Chef. I had an intuition that he would become wildly successful and years later I was finally able to taste that success myself at his first [of three] restaurants opened since his Top Chef win. You…
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When my Mom told me she was going to hear a Holocaust survivor speak a couple weeks ago, I asked if she wouldn’t mind picking up a copy of the book he was discussing (she did – and it was signed!) because the subject matter was slightly different from anything I had read. There are…
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I hope everyone is loving 2014 so far. This is my first full week back in the office in quite a while so I’m still getting my bearings. Without any holidays to look forward to for a while, the winter no longer means fun; it means cold. I’m keeping myself mentally warm by remembering all…
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One of my New Years Resolutions was to revive this monthly feature…so here we go! The Dish: A take on street meat. There is a string of scenes where Mila Kunis’ character is trying to convince JT’s character to move to NYC by showing him all the amazing things about the city, ranging from a…
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Though David Sedaris touches on his childhood in this collection of essays, those anecdotes don’t become the focus of this book as they did in the last collection of his I read, “Me Talk Pretty One Day”. This time, he pulls from his early adulthood and – my favorite – sprinkles in some rants spoken…
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Where my girls at?! Flavorwire looks at 20 women who shaped our culture in 2013. A solar charger may seem like one of those things no one really needs, but after being stranded with no power for six days during Hurricane Sandy, something like this is starting to look pretty good. What would the New…
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The first time I had crème fraîche was while I was living in France. Actually, that’s the only time I have ever had it because they don’t really make it here in the US. Sure, restaurants dollop some cream over berries and say it’s crème fraîche, but it’s not the same. In France, the texture…
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I know I must be getting older because I no longer care about going to an all-inclusive rager for New Years Eve. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the excuse to get hammered in a party dress, but I don’t need to spend $150 to do so with strangers. That’s what we call maturity.…
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Peaches to Apples 