• The Kerry Vincent Headband

    What do headbands and wedding cake have in common? Two words: KERRY VINCENT. (Food Network Challenge judge and master sugar artist, in case you didn’t know.) Kerry Vincent truly deserves a lot of credit in the sugar arts industry and she has received a bunch of well-earned accolades. Just to…

  • Eating Raw Meat

    It’s hard to believe there’s such a thing as eating raw meat—and I’m not talking sushi or tartare. Yes, that’s right. Eating. Raw. Meat. I’m talking about gobbling up a hunk of raw, bloody sirloin. Could you do it? Freaky Eaters is a brand new show on TLC that I…

  • Musings: Pork Belly & Cockles

    It’s not uncommon for trends to present themselves during the year. Fashion trends are the most obvious (flair vs. skinny), as are car preferences (SUV vs. Hybrid). Sometimes you see work-related trends like, being “intentional” and “proactive,” become year long missions at a corporation. Keeping trends in mind, pork belly…

  • Musings: Farm to School

    Maryland schools have more of a Food Revolution feel than I thought. Yesterday, I got an email from the school system, alerting me of a new press release for “School Lunch Week” that starts on Monday. I wasn’t quite sure what the release would be about. Maybe all the kids…

  • Cinema: "Eat, Pray, Love"

    I have a confession to make. Eat, Pray, Love is sitting on my bookshelf, collecting dust, unread past the middle of “Pray.” Unlike the woman at the bookstore, I haven’t grown bored of the book. I just ran out of time after vacation in early August, with all the other…

  • Fall Party Hopping

    This weekend kicked off what is promising to be a busy fall full of parties, weddings, and celebration. It seems like nothing big has happened in our circle of friends for about a year, and now it appears that things are changing. Saturday evening we first stopped in at an…