Montreal loves MJ

thanx to above and beyond mag

Written on July 29, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

Blackberry Ice Cream

This year promises a bumper crop of blackberries in our somewhat overgrown garden. What to do with a

Written on July 26, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

Executive Etiquette Tip – Cocktail Parties

Use cocktail parties as opportunities to get to know others – and for them to get to know you. So do

Written on July 22, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

Psych, Season 4

Yay, Pysch Season 4 starts in a couple weeks. And, if you go to the USA Network website, you can ma

Written on July 19, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

Whatever Works

Great fun, I highly recommend it, especially if you are a Woody Allen fan. The plot is a bi

Written on July 15, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

Tea Party Baby Shower

My sister in law is having a baby, so we are throwing her a tea party to welcome Emily, the first ba

Written on July 12, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News | Leave a comment

I have a very special friend named Ethan, and in just a few days, the grownups in his life will be celebrating his first birthday. Plenty of my friends have children, but this is the first time in my adult life that I’ve been so intimate with the day-to-day, inch-by-inch development of a human tadpole. In the few months that my friend’s diet has expanded beyond the bottled facsimile of breast milk, I’ve had the privilege of observing his experiences with this thing called food, a front-row seat at the high-chair theater, complete with bowl tossing, high-pitched screams and other primal expressions of gustatory joy. One night, I cooked a small pot of red lentils, suggesting to his mother that it’s baby food as Mother Nature had intended, self-pureeing in about 25 minutes. She agrees to the experiment, eager for variety beyond sweet potatoes and applesauce, but me, I’ve got

Written on July 10, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News, entertaining | Leave a comment

Ask Kim: For Old Times’ Sake

As some of you may already know, this is my final week in the AMA ‘hood. But before this blog was born, I had another baby called What’s Cooking, the longest-running cooking chat on the Web until she was put to rest in March. KOD on a very important call. Since I’ve met so many of you the Q&A way, it seems appropriate to have one last dance together in the kitchen, a chance to reminisce, talk to me or to one another. I will entertain both the practical and philosophical, the elementary and the advanced — and of course, there’s no such thing as a stupid question. Consider the kitchen door open at 11 a.m. ET (8 a.m. PT), and we’ll have coffee and crumpets in the comments area. I’ll check in every 30 minutes or so until just before suppertime here on the West Coast (say, around

Written on July 9, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News, entertaining | Leave a comment

At the Movies: (Fish) Food for Thought

Back in May, I featured three newly released food documentaries, just a taste of the cinematic smorgasbord on offer this summer. Now there’s another film on the menu, and this one, in my opinion, is worth chewing on. 2048. That’s when scientists predict there’ll be no more fish dinners, because of the going rate of overfishing. As in: No. More. Fish. For. Real. This is the take-away message of “End of the Line,” an urgent 82-minute plea for the sea, no sugar coating included. Based on the book by British journalist Charles Clover, the doc, narrated by actor Ted Danson, is a collage of interviews with scientists and first-hand reports from fishermen around the world on the impact of overfishing on their livelihoods, their families and their fishing-based cultures. The camera trails Clover on his impassioned mission to “out” high-end restaurants that continue to serve the highly prized (and

Written on July 8, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News, entertaining | Leave a comment