pressing pause
The team over at EatMore DrinkMore, taking stock of the Instagram pics and messages that perpetually pass through the ever-moving traffic of Twitter, noted something: in the absence of school and work...
View Articlecompany and comfort food
Sometimes it is all you need – good friends and good food. There can be an occasion, a reason for the gathering. Or it can just be for the sake of eating and chatting, catching up and laughing away...
View Articlethe cry for pie
When it comes to dessert I am an equal opportunity type of gal. Layered cakes, frosted cookies, airy macarons, gooey caramels, truffled chocolates, even sticky toffee puddings; I’m rarely one to turn a...
View Articleeleven months, twenty-nine days
Eleven months, twenty-nine days. It is possible that Ken has already started the countdown – to Thanksgiving 2013. Forget Christmas. Never mind birthdays. 4th of July has a lot going for it, festive...
View Articleadd orange juice and bubbly to that shopping list
You’ve experienced one. A conversation in which you realize that, about half way through, the other person has stopped listening. You’ve been uttering words that you thought quite important – worth...
View Articlebacon puree – part two
If one were to go by search terms alone, it would be safe to assume that we – that is the royal we – have an obsession with bacon. “Bacon puree,” “how to puree bacon,” “bacon whipped cream,” “bacon...
View Articletwelve months of two bites
Every holiday season we get together with some of our extended family, people who, more often than not, we see only once a year. Conversation is the catch-up kind. And while the details of the recent...
View Articlewhy, hello. again.
Pssst…still there? Perhaps not, after all this time. And I don’t blame you one little bit. We disappeared without a peep, just as the new year – last year! – was getting underway. Rather abruptly, and...
View Articlebad banana
Perfection. A heady concept. And an unobtainable one. Yet I’ve spent years working in an industry where it is a catch phrase, a standard-issue sell. The event will be perfect, we say with authority....
View Article‘gramming the day away
Memorial Day weekend approaches and along with it summer. But before jumping into hazy heated days and escapes from the city, I’m looking back on some of my favorite [Instagram] moments from spring....
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