I may have been sitting in a movie theater waiting for Star Trek Beyond to start, but secretly I was counting down the hours until the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the long-awaited (and according to J.K. Rowling) final Potter story. Like millions of other Potter devotees, I want to know what…
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In the Cocktail Hour
It’s not often I spend an entire afternoon playing with cocktails (and still remain sober enough to write a post about it), but that’s what I’ve done. I assure you it’s all for a worthy cause. A good friend of mine asked if I would be interested in testing out a few products she’s been…
Simply Irresistible Guilty Pleasures
It really doesn’t take much to set me off on a baking project–watching back-to-back episodes of The Great British Bake Off (damn, Paul and Mary are harsh!)…perusing the latest online issues of Delicious or Donna Hay (two of my favorite food magazines). I was already primed, itching to bake something, when an online Saveur article…
Day at the Museum…or Adventures with Vivi and Milton
With everyone’s schedules all over the place this summer, when the planets align and the opportunity to hang out arises, you just have to jump on it. Such was the case this past weekend for me and Laura (Rina otherwise tied up). After 15 minutes of messaging back and forth, we decided to pack up…
It’s Summertime…and life is just peachy.
Summer for me means long days in a hot bakery (well someone’s gotta do it), but it also means (thankfully) a bounty of gorgeous, sun-drenched, field-ripened stone fruit. At the local farmer’s market, I’m like a kid in a candy store skipping from stand to stand tasting the best of summer produce. While I love…
Takeout Remedy…or I’ll have the #4 please
There’s this running joke in the movie Two Weeks Notice (2002) where Sandra Bullock’s character Lucy, who is a Mylanta-guzzling, workaholic stress-eater, phones in for ridiculously large orders of Chinese takeout (mostly for herself) from her favorite neighborhood restaurant. We don’t exactly know what she’s ordering, aside from a last minute addition of egg rolls, because Lucy…
Cinco de Mayo….or Y Tu Mama Loves Chocolate
No, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day and, apparently, more popular here than in Mexico. And ever since some ex-patriot Mexicans living in California decided to turn it into a holiday to celebrate the French getting their asses kicked by the Mexicans in the Battle of Puebla, Cinco de Mayo has become (for…
Whitewashed…or It Ain’t Fusion, it’s Confusion
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….
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…