Tanaquil Le Clercq  with Corrado Cagli, Vittorio Rieti, and  George Balanchine, by Irving Penn photo © Tanaquil Le Clercq is a legend...

number 14 (Gray), 1948 by Jackson Pollock When I think of Jackson Pollock, I rarely think of food.  It's funny, but I don't t...

For most people, this is the image they think of when they think of Audrey Hepburn in a kitchen. Holly Golightly in full tiara examining ...

Hurston in Eau Gallie Today's Famous Food Friday features Zora Neale Hurston.  Hurston was so much more than a novelist; she was a w...

In 1947, Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray stared in "The Egg and I." The movie was based on Betty MacDonald's book of th...

  Colleen McCullough died on 29  January.   She was Australia's best selling author, a neurophysiologist, and for us, a cookbook auth...

O'Keeffe's Kitchen Sink, Ghost Ranch, 1975  by Dan Budnik     ...

 "Twee" has always been one of my favorite words.  It was a lost, slightly obscure word that is now a cultural buzz word.  I am ...

You might think that you know EVERYTHING, yes, everything there is to know about that merry band at Bloomsbury.  You know who slept wi...

Yes, Virginia, we love a good celebrity cookbook.  We especially love those cookbooks written by the obscure celebrity.  Actually, in hi...

Today's Famous Food Friday features rock stars of old...some of them still rocking today. Cool Cooking by Roberta Ashley was publishe...

I have two words for you -- food porn.   At Home with May and Axel Vervoordt is a big old book of food porn. I am not saying it is wrong...

Well, I do love language, I just have a great deal of trouble SPELLING the language.  Thanks to my readers who often find my amusing and u...