Sun-dried tomato tapenade and Crostini Tossed green Salad Black bean and bell pepper and corn Salad Rice Slow roasted, spice rubbed, garlic stuffed pork Shoulder Mango Salsa Olive oil cake with caramelized figs and Peaches Okay. If you’re looking closely at the background of the monkey picture you’ll see my…
Yes – I understand there’s a football game on Sunday. Do I know who’s playing? No. Do I know where they’re playing? No. In blissful ignorance I have been planning dinner parties and thinking about Los Angeles empty of crowds and where I’ll go on Sunday. The Kid and the…
I am about to take a few months break from Beguiling (although I may pop in now and again) as I feel the urge to follow the Golden Thread of Inspiration—stop laughing—and return to writing, obviously this means I wouldn’t be able to take the time with the weblog as…
Once upon a time, in Hollywood’s Golden Era, there lived a photographer named Clarence Sinclair Bull who made it his business while at MGM to capture starlight. His portraits were legendary, and so were those who sat for them. Like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich… Now, there is a lot…
There’s a lot of talk these days about the seismic changes in the publishing business. What’s discussed less are the changes to the social aspect of reading and the increasingly social ways people interact over books. And this social component is even driving the way books are marketed, both by…