New year, new beginnings? I don’t know if I really feel that so much in January as I do in September. January is hibernation time. I like to crawl into my warm cave and cook and eat warming foods. It’s no coincidence that winter foods are flavored with warming spices like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. [...]
I don’t drink beer…not even “girly” beer, “lite” or pale or anything like that. I worked in a pub in London and learned how to pull a proper pint though. The pub was one of the few in London which brewed it’s own beers, ales and stouts right in the basement. But of course, in [...]
When you live in Los Angeles, chances are you know someone in the movie or televison industry. So when I got an email from my Casting Director/Producer friend, Frances Mena, last Friday night asking if Sophie and I wanted to be extras on the set of “Courage, New Hampshire, a historical drama set in 1770, [...]
I am pretty easily pleased when it comes to gifts, and my friends know that I am happy with food related things. So, for my “big” birthday, I received some Maldon Sea Salt flakes from France, White Hawaiian salt crystals, a salt cellar and lots other food related gifts. Way back in one of my [...]
