Living in Southern California, you hardly see the seasons change and for the last few years, it seemed like we were going straight from summer to a mild winter with 80 degrees F temperatures on Thanksgiving Day. With the weather being as it is, we hardly get a chance to complement our fall season with…
This month I’m offering up some of my heartiest and most autumn-like recipes for fall to suite various taste buds. I find the fall season to be not just a time for warmth and homely goodness, but it also beckons a sense of elegance in my mind and some of my recipes for the season…
Tonight’s A Fork & A Flick movie is A Walk in the Clouds. You may not think that it is much of a foodie movie, however the film takes place on a fictional Northern California Vineyard, which alone opens up a sundry of possibilities for gastronomy because you may already be aware that Napa and…
I did it, I have been blogging for a year! A year ago today, I started this blog with the Sexy Eats project during which I cooked out of two recipe books – InterCourses and Romancing the Stove for 30 days straight…… I know, looking back, it’s a bit Julie Powell and overdone. But, it…
One of life’s treasures is the sweet memories we can reminisce about. I was hanging out in a little hidden pocket of Long Beach, CA called Belmont Shore where sits a nostalgic candy store that will let you be a kid again. Powell’s Sweet Shoppe isn’t exactly a candy store from the past that still…
Millions of Muslims around the world are gathering to celebrate Eid al-Adha. The festival honors the willingness of Ibrahim – known as Abraham in the Hebrew bible – to sacrifice his son following God’s command. Thus is also the Feast of Sacrifice. This festival also marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Many…
Say goodbye to long hot days everyone, it’s the last day of summer. Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox, in the Northern Hemisphere, which marks the first day of fall. On this day, night and day are nearly exactly the same length all over the world. This is the reason it’s called an “equinox”, derived from…
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