Fast Sunday. It’s probably not in the spirit of things to stuff ourselves once the fasting is over. But, to our credit, we feasted with half dozen fruits in this Glazed Fruit Bowl. And we added just as many vegetables to the Brunch Strata. (We won’t mention that it also called for cream and cheese and cream cheese.) We even ate fruit in the [...]
Today is Rosanne Cash day. I’m listening to her on Pandora, in hopes that I’ll “get it.” I just read her memoir, Composed, and I can at least offer this lukewarm praise: 1) Some of us take awhile to find ourselves. Some of look for ourselves in New York and Paris. Some of us have a Daddy who pays the hefty rent while we spend [...]
You might be one of the adoring fans of the 2004 BBC miniseries, North & South, the story of the Hale family, as they move themselves from the pastoral south of England to the grimy, industrial north.The television production is adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. In case you’ve missed both the book and the TV show, let me catch you up on things: [...]
