Candy Spelling | Posted April 30, 2008 | Living
I remember the Life magazine that came out the week I became a "grown up." That was, of course, when I turned 13, and, therefore, knew more than anyone, was finally old enough not to be treated as a child, and the whole world belonged to my generation.
A "Quartet...
Jane McGivney | Posted April 28, 2008 | Entertainment
We open up with Spike making a coffee - which gives me a strange pang of kinship with Spike: Oh no, I also love coffee! Yikes! On to the quickfire!
QUICKFIRE
There are piles of cakes! Pastries! And a guest judge! It's Johnny I., pastry Icon and James Beard award...
Jewell Rae Jeffers | Posted February 26, 2008 | Living
Chew on this: more Americans skip breakfast than skip voting, Christmas, and George Bush's State of the Union address combined. Even my dog, Ham Sandwich, knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Scientific scientists have proven that without breakfast the brain can not function properly. I submit...
Elissa Altman | Posted December 30, 2007 | Living
Not to sound overly simplistic or anything, but I'm not sure what it is about conflict and personal trial that compels food writers of most stripes to beat a hasty retreat to their home kitchens.
Okay, fine. I lied.
I know what it is, and I'm sure you...
New York Times | MARK BITTMAN | December 19, 2007 10:18 AM
Elissa Altman | Posted December 2, 2007 | Living
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.''
-- Benjamin Franklin
If any rule of thumb applies to holiday entertaining etiquette, be it Thanksgiving, Hannukah, or Christmas, this would be it: If you're someone else's house guest during the holidays, make yourself scarce after three days for both their...
Peggy Levitt | Posted November 21, 2007 | Living
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk to the members of the League of Women Voters about my work on immigration. The demographics of their upper-middle-class northeastern suburb were changing. In the last 10 years, the foreign-born population had grown by nearly 15 percent. Their children now...
Sarah Dietz | Posted November 20, 2007 | Living
Before I left for college, I thought I knew what I would miss most: My parents, my friends, my dog, and my room. I was wrong. Although I do miss all of those parts of my life, in the age of video chats, none of them seem that far away....
Sarah Murray | Posted November 14, 2007 | Living
As the holidays approach, the usual bombardment of festive advertising is starting to appear on TV screens around the country. One ad in particular has intrigued me.
It shows a woman getting ready to welcome her family over to the house for dinner. In her hand she has a...
Fortune.com | October 24, 2007 03:12 PM
Elissa Altman | Posted October 7, 2007 | Living
My first experience with Alice Waters, the founder of the ground-breaking Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, took place back in 1987; I was the cookbook buyer at the original Dean & Deluca in Manhattan, and one day, the door was flung open wide by a panting, petite...
Dr. Timothy Brantley | Posted September 30, 2007 | Living
When I talk about the power of food to help the body cure disease, I often find people are shocked, as if they're hearing this information for the very first time. My response is, why do you eat and drink every day? In fact, the choice of what we eat...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
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Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Real Simple | May 5, 2008 11:02 AM