I’m big fan of Benedict Cumberbatch (though I would never use that dreaded moniker “Cumberbitch”), so I was excited to see the new trailer for his upcoming film Dr. Strange, based on a popular Marvel comic. Unlike Rina, who lives and breathes comics, I’m not all too familiar with the origins of these Marvel characters….
Month: April 2016
Small Dice Challenge: Spring Rolls and Chicken Wings
I was grocery shopping when I came across the above. I always love ordering Vietnamese spring rolls when I go out to Vietnamese restaurants, so I wanted to see if I could make them at home. I remembered that I had bought shrimp meat a couple of days ago and figured I could use that…
Retro Baking…or What I Learned From Betty Crocker
When I was a kid, at around seven or eight years old, my mom brought home this vintage 1950’s Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook from a garage sale. I was instantly captivated by the vivid photographs of (what I considered at the time) all the “fancy food” and the depiction of this idealized domestic world from…
On the Set: The Grass is Greener
Many moons ago, I self-published a comic series called Namby Pamby. This is from the last issue from 2008, and marks the first of a series of comics that will adapt excerpts from movie star memoirs. What I like most about movie star memoirs is learning the behind-the-scenes moments during the making of my favorite…
Nora Knows Best
Nora Ephron is my spirit animal. There, I’ve said it. I’ve felt this way ever since I first stumbled across her poignantly funny, biting, foodcentric autobiographical novel Heartburn (1983) back in my twenties. I instantly related to Nora’s brand of edgy humor…and her obsession with food. Watching her son Jacob Bernstein’s insightful HBO documentary Everything…