The young ones reading me today won’t remember it, but back in the 90s a pop group called the Spice Girls became a huge hit and their main motto was[...]

Still on the changing of tastes subject , there are foods nowadays that I adore that I didn’t as a kid (or as even a young adult). I’ve written[...]

I admire actors committed to their craft who are willing to go the extra mile for a part, but getting fat/thin/ugly to play a character must be part of the[...]

As I continue my marathon to watch this year’s Oscar nominated movies , I was extremely surprised by how moved I was by Her – though genius[...]

I thought it would take me a long time to get addicted to a TV show again after Breaking Bad , but the quality of a few drama series was so high I immediately[...]

It is no secret that the list of recipes I want to try is an endless thing, but sometimes because of the large amount of recipes it is hard to choose just one[...]

I find it fascinating how our taste changes with time – I was listening to the radio yesterday when “I Stay Away” started playing, a song I[...]

With Hannibal still more than a month away and the ages Sony has been taking to air the as the last two episodes of The Blacklist I started watching another TV[...]

Amazon showers me with emails filled with cookbook offers every week, and since I’m a cookbook junkie it is hard to resist them, so I just take a quick[...]

I was listening to an FM radio station weeks ago and when they started playing Katy Perry’s “Roar” it suddenly hit me: her teenage fans[...]

The Oscar nominees were announced yesterday and several of my favorites are part of the list: Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Martin Scorsese, Judi Dench,[...]

Another recipe with cherries, another cake , but this time in teeny-tiny form, and the reason why I didn’t make these adorable mini cakes years before[...]

I have always found the Golden Globes much more fun than the Oscars, and a lot fairer, too, since they separate comedy from drama. Fair is not a word I often[...]

The subject of traveling in time has produced a handful of movies, some interesting , some hideous . Last night I watched another movie about it, by far the[...]

Every time I see something delicious made with cherries I mentally file the recipe to make it by the end of the year, when the fruit is abundant, sweet and not[...]