For the final A Fork & A Flick Friday this year. I have selected It’s a Wonderful Life. What else could I have selected to cuddle up to on a cold winter Friday night in December? It’s an all-time classic that is to this day aired in movie theaters during the holidays. The 1946 Frank…
Yesterday, I was watching Lee Ann Rimes on The Today Show singing her new Christmas song. It’s quite uplifting and really puts you in the Christmas mood. The holiday season has kicked off and there is someone throwing a holiday party almost every weekend from now until New Year’s. Then there are the corporate events…
Let’s Party Like the Brits I’m devoting the rest of this year to holiday food, but more so to holiday party food. When I was thinking a repertoire of recipes to feature for the final month of this year, it seems that every dish that appealed to me just happened to originate from the United Kingdom. We…
It’s Halloween tomorrow! Since it’s on a Saturday, I bet many of you are looking for ways to fill up your whole day with Halloween activities culminating with trick-or-treating in the evening. I have something fun you can do to lead into one extra day of fun. I have a Horchata recipe that is yummy…
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…
Biblically speaking the Holiday of Rosh Hashanah is just one day, which is the first day of the seventh month (Tishrei). The reason Rosh Hashanah is celebrated as two days everywhere in Israel and even outside Israel, is because biblically the first day of the month is to be determined by the Rabbinical court in…
Today is the first of the two day Jewish celebration, Rosh Hashanah. The name means “Head of the Year” and is observed for two days beginning on 1 Tishrei, the first day of the Jewish year. The Jewish New Year is the first of the holy days which occurs in autumn in the Northern hemisphere.…
The word Sherbet derives from the Arabic word “shariba”, “to drink.” Shariba gave rise to numerous derivatives, in Arabic and other languages, including English. Whatever it was called in any language, however, sherbet’s principal meaning remains “syrup” or its derivative, “a cooling drink of the East,” as the Oxford English Dictionary calls it. Sherbet is…