Valentine’s Day is upon us next week and next week is also Random Acts of Kindness Week which culminates in Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17th. The entire week will be full of love, caring, and sweet benevolent gestures from one individual to another. We can hope that such inspiration allows us as…
February’s Pick for A Fork & A Flick is French Kiss. French Kiss was filmed on location in Paris, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France, and Cannes. With some of the most photogenic cities on earth, and cinematography that makes love to the locations, this film is a charmer for Valentine’s Day. The film’s…
Last week we made Chinese Dumplings and I thought this week we could move to Eastern European Dumplings. Perogies are made by wrapping pockets of unleavened dough around a savory or sweet filling and cooking them in boiling water. These dumplings are popular in Slavic (Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian) and other Eastern…
Chinese New Year is ahead of us this weekend. The year of the rooster starts on Jan. 28th and all around the world, Chinese people are cleaning their houses, shopping for new clothes, and preparing for feasts. There’s much to take care of before it arrives, as the Chinese follow several traditions leading up to…
Depending on the kind of work you do, you may be lucky enough to have this upcoming Monday off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s an American Federal Holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Did you know that is wasn’t until the year 2000 that all 50 states have recognized and…
The winter holidays may have past. But winter is still fierce and strong. This January winter is gray with the rains’ unwillingness to cease. Many trees, once gay in their multicolored autumn coats, stand barren, stark against the ashen sky. Solace however, is that California winter rains bring lush green carpets of grass. Quite a…
Here I am featuring another movie based on a book generated from newspaper published short stories for our first A Fork & A Flick Friday of this year. I’m going to a classic film to start off the New Year and one that also allows us to travel through the seasons that are yet to come. Often…
I realize that many of the movies I select to do posts on are originally books. I suppose a bestselling book makes a good story on film and is a testament to my selective film taste as well as literary eye. So this time around I’m starting the year off writing about a book that befittingly starts…