Category: Food

  • The Food of Love

    The Food of Love

    The great thing about romance is that enjoying it vicariously can be almost as enchanting as actually being in love….

  • The Bowl Game

    The Bowl Game

    The eggnog bowl is big and round and welcoming. Its contents are rich and smooth and frothy on top….

  • Viva el Cinco de Mayo

    Viva el Cinco de Mayo

    Feliz Cinco de Mayo, everybody! If you look up the holiday on the internet, you’ll find a lot of know-it-alls telling you that everything you think you know about it is wrong. It’s not Mexico’s Independence Day; according to The Washington Post, “Instead, it refers to a famous military victory…

  • The Irish Tenor

    The Irish Tenor

    The sound this honorary Irishman’s soul longs for on St. Patrick’s Day is the inimitable, ineffable, indelible voice of John McCormack.

  • And the winner is….

    And the winner is….

    The Academy Awards aren’t really about the movies for me. To begin with, I never manage to see all the pictures that are in the running, so I can’t get fully invested in whether my picks win or not. Besides, there are always umpteen genuinely worthy nominees for every one…