I was desperate to escape the conference hotel where for the past two days I was stranded without a car and with nowhere to walk. The food on property was dreadful to the point where they overcooked the over easy eggs, dried out the pancakes and made frozen french fries […]
So today, November 2nd is my partner in cookie crime, Cookie Monster’s birthday. While he remains ageless to children, he is actually a bit of an old man as Frank Oz started portraying Cookie Monster in 1969! Despite his voracious appetite for cookies, he still looks pretty healthy for a […]
As a child, my sister and I often visited my grandparents for the day. My mom would drop us off and give us each $1.00 which in the 70’s/early 80’s was a lot of money with strong purchasing power in the candy store world. We would plan our strategy before […]
“I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream” unless, like me, you are lactose intolerant, then you just sit there sad with your once scoop of sorbet remembering a time when you could enjoy ice cream (yes, I’m still bitter by my diagnosis). Here I was at Harrod’s Ice Cream […]
My sister had a few rules before I could take my eleven year old niece, Aubrey, to Paris & London. The first rule was to feed her every few hours even if she says she isn’t hungry (this seemed easy?). The second rule was no empty calories like I normally […]
The famous quote “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” immediately came to mind with this week’s FriFotos theme of “Heat”. I’m taking a bit of liberty with the quote’s meaning to have some fun sharing my love of desserts around the world. With three trips […]
My initial intent was to show my niece, Aubrey, the magic of dessert in all it’s tempting forms at Laduree on the Champs Elysses in Paris. My timing wasn’t quite so good as she hit “famished” on her internal food feeding barometer (she was eating 5xs a day!) right in […]
If you haven’t guessed by now in reading my blog or following my instagram, I have an insatiable sweet tooth. Visiting Paris with my eleven year old niece, Aubrey, allowed me to indulge a bit more than normal (or at least I felt that I had a good excuse for […]
Solo dining is either embraced or feared. I decided a long time ago to embrace it and look at it for what it is – I’m hungry and am allowed to eat, by myself, alone at a table and enjoy my meal just like the couples and groups around me. […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you have probably realized that I have an unhealthy obsession with cookies (and dessert). Now, I can’t eat cookies all the time because apparently they aren’t part of the recommended food pyramid chart (I think they should reconsider this, cookies make people happy […]