When I asked her what was a source of inspiration, she said ” Most definitely, my Mom’s gardens.” Alexis’ mother is a landscape designer, so she is surrounded by beauty and bounty. When I asked her about her perspective on food, she said” It is so important to use all of the...
Lionel Barrymore dresses up as an old woman, shrinks people who've done him wrong and keeps a collection of tiny folks in the back room of his shop (and occasionally sells the shrunken victims as dolls). It's based on a novel called 'Burn, With, Burn!' Director Tod Browning – a ve...
talking about how vinyl is once again becoming the physical media of choice when it comes to experiencing music, and the impact that's had on the Austin Record Convention, which the TV station says is the largest sale of recorded music in the United States.Yet...
I made my first jame – a blueberry ginger recipe I think I got from you! Well, it was two make a couple nice bottles but I thought I could knock out about 8 so I quadrupled the recipe. Duh! Why change things when you’re trying it for the firs time? Needless to say my quick...
I tinkered with the blend to include two more spices, but I have to admit to you that things got a bit muddled. Eight seemed enough for me this time. The cool thing about DIY Chinese five-spice powder is you can experiment with it.You can start with the basic five spices, and if ...
Friday the 13th: Part VI, he explains: “I was trying to set a tone right from the beginning that this was going to be like the Universal horror movies used to be: a stormy night at a cemetery, digging up the grave, a monster that is actually dead coming back and is unstoppable.”...
Today I found out why chocolate is bad for dogs. Chocolate contains an alkaloid called “theobromine”. Theobromine is in the same family as caffeine and is a type of stimulant (they both are mythylxanines). Theobromine stimulates the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, and ...
Today, the economy has been redefined into something called the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. It measures all goods and services brought to market ia a given year: But is it really an accurate measure of how well an economy is serving people’ s needs Here are some outlandish ways the ...
We keep each other company. And sometimes she cocks her little duck head sideways, looking at me with one upturned eye as if to say, “Is it really you?” Or so I like to think. I worry about the ducks’ fates when they fly away, and am sad knowing that I’ll never see them ...