Topic: Julia Child

15 Frugal Ways to Battle Boredom

If I have a free day with absolutely nothing to do, my first impulse is often to go shopping. I could just take a walk, window shop, and peruse my...

Grain Trust

ENJOY | The Green Life. GRAIN TRUST . Grain is as American as apple pie. So it's only natural that farmers who want to protect this land-and its...

Twinkies and the Weight-Loss Blues

January 10, 2012 at 3:50 pm, by Julie Bain. . Know any good Twinkie jokes? I just read that Hostess Brands Inc. is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Julia Child’s Taqueria

When eating with a one-and-a-half-year-old, it is impossible to photograph your food. Which is just as well, because this dish I am about to...

Culture Desk

Food is sex you can talk about, a wise friend said recently. (In Seattle, where cake-baking is the new S. & M., food is also apparently sex you...

Secrets of Absinthe's coq au vin

0 View Larger Image . Coq au vin is one of those beloved dishes that used to show up regularly on menus but seems to have fallen from favor. Like...

Restaurant Review: Midtown's best takeout

It isn't just that convenient takeout has made home cooking toast — how soon will the takeout dinner challenge good restaurants? I decided to...

You, Apple and Steve Jobs

Twitter is about you.. . Facebook is about you and your friends.. . Google is about searching for stuff all by yourself (with someone else's tool...

Julia Child's Santa Barbara

Happy Birthday Julia Child! The television chef and author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking would have turned 99 today. On this anniversary...

Reality's new battleground: food wars

With Monday's win of Top Chef Canada, by Vancouver's Dale MacKay, it's clear that the days of Julia Child showing television watchers how to debone...