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Holiday gatherings usually allow participants a minute or two to indulge in nostalgia for days gone by. For me and mine, this year was no exception. Over and over again, the topic of meatloaf came up. I’ve recently had a lot of dinners out, and it seems that meatloaf has returned to menus, allowing for this trip down Memory Lane. Okay, you food snobs, the conversation did not take place at Le Bernadin, but at some local joint where you ...read more I’ve figured out the obesity problem. It’s the food group thing. It’s not about what you eat, necessarily, but about with whom you eat, where you eat, and your emotional state when the food goes into your mouth. Trying to tell me to eat three veggies and two fruits each day has no soul, and it ain’t working. Give me the rules on the who, what, where, and when theory of eating, and I think we can lick this thing. Thanksgiving at ...read more You know how you get those emails telling you that if you don’t throw away all your toilet paper, you will get a rash that will never leave you? Then it turns out it is a scam from the Net and has taken off in that viral way that the Net nurtures. I got the following such email from my sister. She was forwarding it from someone who had forwarded it to her. I googled it and it does appear that ...read more We need to talk about Cheerios. I recently received an email explaining that the new cool thing is to make a Cheerios necklace for your friends (I think they thought I was still in high school, bless them). The Cheerios necklace recipient eats a Cheerio off the necklace every time she sees the guy she likes at school and voila, he will like her after she finishes the necklace and all the Cheerios have been ingested. Now, that’s marketable. I ...read more Let’s talk about fruitcakes. “Why would we want to do that?” I hear you query. Well, because it’s that time of year and it came up at dinner with friends the other night. I have been thinking about them ever since. “I made fruitcakes today,” my friend Cathryn said when we sat down to dinner after a movie. “Why would you do that?” I then looked down at the menu. “I like making fruitcakes.” “Well, no one likes eating them,” I said impatiently. “So, ...read more Bet you thought I was kidding. Nope, my friend, Liz Neumark, owner of Great Performances, one of the foremost catereres in New York City, fed 10,000 people yesterday on Thanksgiving. Ok, she didn’t do it all by herself. But she was the force behind it. She writes a blog on the Huffington Post, and I wanted to reprint it today. In the spirit of this season, she inspires me. We all need our friends to do that now and again. ...read more I was driving in Denver with my family this past weekend, and we drove by the Wonder Bread factory. The smell was to die for. I commented that I remember my childhood when we would cut the crust off the bread, roll the rest of the bread into a ball and eat it. It was a giant glob of thick bread. After you ate it, it was with you for days. Days I tell you. They said there was an ...read more I really hate it when Oprah tells me I have to like something. I get her exitement. But, first of all, her track record in film is less than stellar, and she pushes, pushes, pushes. And, then she calls someone in the film and tells them they will be nominated for an Academy Award. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. No offense, and I’m an Oprah lover, but she needs to not jinx people with her methodology of ...read more Halloween is one of those holidays that you don’t really have to prepare in advance to get through. Did you know that 1/4 of all candy sold annually is sold for Halloween? This does not surprise me in the least. I’m sure I buy most of it. For years, I have started buying Halloween candy a month before the night when kids come knocking. “Get it now and you won’t have to worry about it,” I say while traveling through the ...read more |
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