Today’s the day that this amazing worldwide event goes live, with monies raised going to benefit the United Nations World Food Programme’s new initiative, Purchase for Progress.  Food bloggers from around the globe have rallied together to offer a spectacular array of items upon which to bid. If you see something that catches your fancy, [...]

More recipes this weekend, but for now I wanted to let you all know that I am participating in this year’s Menu For Hope campaign. How does it work? People from all over the world – food bloggers, producers, artisans with food related work, publishers, restauranteurs, etc. join the campaign by offering a delectable array [...]

Photo by Jeremy Brooks We’ve all eaten it.  Figuratively only, or so I thought.  Please indulge, today, a diversion and my fascination with this oddity.  Or so I thought. My mother-in-law Marty is a clipper.  Her breakfast room counter is home to what she refers to as “my piles.”  These are stacks of newspaper clippings, [...]

Actually, it was 71.  We will miss the inspiration. Go back forty or fifty years.  I see the dog-eared copy of the magazine on the counter.  It’s the current issue.  I ask about the individual pages that have been turned.  I’m told that those pages contain recipes that “sound interesting.”  Some of the dishes made [...]