Taste Life
Hold up. These people look relaxed. Where’s the sweat dripping from their furrowed brows as they try to find the perfect temperature between gooey cheese goodness and coagulation? Tell you what, this was not my fondue party. I hoped it would be my fondue party. I tried to keep my charm and hostess halo, but the [...]
I love Jacques Pepin. His auto-biography The Apprentice captivated me. Reading it was pure brain candy. I loved being transported back to France and learning about his culinary rise from the South of France, Lyon specifically, to the top restaurants in Paris culminating with him acquiring the top post of Head Chef for Charles de Gaulle. [...]
A year ago I was staring at my tiny baby boy realizing my world had changed. I was tired but didn’t care to rest. I just stared at this new little person by my side and thought —wow, I am a mom… Better get my act together, someone else (quite literally) depends on me! Today [...]
I’m a gift-giving-a-holic. Happened early on. I think it’s wired in my DNA. Economic conditions can’t scrub it out, and distance between family and friends only add fuel to my gift-giving fire, it’s gotta be my wiring… The older you get, the tighter the responsibility noose, but I am one to forge ahead in adverse [...]
