Category Archives: Food and Drink

Celebrating Cupcakes and Muffins

So there I am just walking along at the Book Expo when I spied with my little eye this delicious Celebrating Cupcakes and Muffins book by Michal Moses. Now, I like cupcakes. The fun thing about being a wedding photographer is that you get to taste a wide variety of cakes and cupcakes at people’s…

Eat! Move! Play!

With childhood obesity on the rise and in the news on a daily basis, along side nonstop advertisements for junk food and a growing sedentary lifestyle for families, there’s no denying the fact that more parents are concerned about their children’s health than ever before. In response to the growing interest in these topics, the…

Once Upon a Time in the Kitchen

Over the last decade or so, I’ve amassed a sizable collection of children’s books, for which I’m truly grateful. While most tend to be the standard picture book fare, a small part of the collection is made up of cookbooks written for use with young children. With the release of Carol Odell’s book Once Upon…

Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon

If there was an award for a unique and catchy book title, I’m pretty certain that Mark Di Vincenzo’s Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon: A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do That, and Go There would be among the finalists. Eye-catching and perfectly summarizing what a reader should expect,…

Keeping the Feast

My takeaways from reading Paula Butturini’s memoir, Keeping the Feast: I want to go to Rome I want to shop in an open market I wish I were Italian or at least had some Italian friends who cook I am hungry for fresh fruit and vegetables and for homemade pasta I better understand depression and…

Cake Wrecks

Maybe I’m a really sick person but I get a lot of kicks and jollies out of looking at other people’s cake decorating disasters. I know that this isn’t kind of me, but it’s very true. You see, I submitted myself to a Wilton Cake Decorating Class once and used my (valid) excuse of a…

A Taste of Fame

A Taste of Fame is the second installment in the Potluck Catering Club series of novels by Linda Evans Shepherd and Eva Marie Everson. In this novel, the group of friends and fellow caterers who call themselves, you guessed it, the Potluck Catering Club win a berth on a reality TV show, the Great Party…

Top Secret Recipes Unlocked

I had to. I simply HAD to know what recipes were in Top Secret Recipes Unlocked: All New Home Clones of America’s Favorite Brand-Name Foods because it mentioned that it had some top secret Chick fil A recipes and I have a known weakness for Chick fil A. (I also don’t have one within about…