Julie & Julia Opens!

Check out my capsule review of Julie and Julia on Examiner.com . A longer, much longer, one will appear here shortly.

Michael Pollan – In Defense Of Cooking

Michael Pollan wrote the wonderful cover story in the New York Times Magazine this week. He talked about some my favorite thing…

You Might Want To Avoid The Home Delivery Option For Oscar Meyer Weiners

They may decide to deliver them right INTO your house, instead of TO your house. Look what happened in Wisconsin on Friday, whe…

And You Thought I Went On And On Only On MY Blog...

I had a wonderful opportunity, thanks to darling Em , to have an (electronic) conversation with the lovely Kate from A Merrier W…

Pistachio Recall Revisited

I feel quite terrible for all the pistachio growers and purveyors out there whose business is being decimated by the pistachio re…

Stay Away From Pistachios…But Don’t Ditch Them?

This new warning from the FDA about salmonella in pistachios is kind of annoying. We’re being told to KEEP the pistachios, just …

Sad, Sad, Sad

It’s such terrible news about the death of beautiful, talented Natasha Richardson. What a wonderful actress (and Tony winner), wi…

Rachael Ray...YES, You Heard It Here – LEAVE THE POOR WOMAN ALONE!!!

There was an unusually NON-noteworthy interview with RR last night on Nightline . It was particularly annoying, because it had b…