My name is Laura, and I am a carb addict. I never met a potato I didn’t like. Never went to an Italian restaurant without ordering at least a side of pasta. I have been known to eat an entire mini baguette with a slab of Brie. I couldn’t even make it forty-eight hours on…
Do you know this man? He appears at least a couple times a day in my Twitter stream. I think he’s hot. And a damned good writer. But even with all that going for him, if I went to a restaurant and he was sitting at a table in the corner, I would never recognize…
Once upon a time, in the long-distant past, movies were made from books. You remember that, right? Everyone would say, “Oh, sure, I saw the movie, but it was nowhere near as good as the book,” even if they didn’t necessarily believe it to be true, because that was conventional wisdom. (In fact, it still…
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Two of my great loves are reading and eating. I find both very satisfying and, with the exception of sleeping, I’d rather do either of them than just about anything else. When I approach either a book or a meal, however, I anticipate certain experiences and no matter how delectable the fare, if it doesn’t…
Recently, CNN posted an article about the boom in culinary mysteries. The article posits many reasons for people’s enjoyment of culinary cozies, but leaves out the one that brings me back time and again—I just like food. I like reading about it, preparing it, and, most of all, eating it. So it’s odd that I’ve…
