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Tonight I was searching around for news on one of my favorite British authors (Katie Fforde), and I found this entertaining primer on British chick-lit, complete with a rating system for the social class each authoress tends to write about. If you like...
I was reading this interesting article over the weekend at the Guardian about why porridge is the new power breakfast. When I was a child, I was a voracious reader (well, I still am) who loved English novels, where porridge was always the holy grail of...
Last week in the U.K., British cookbook author Delia Smith (who’s a little bit like our Martha Stewart, except that she owns a football team and hasn’t done time) presented her first Christmas cooking program in 20 years, and it looks like it was a big...
I read in the Daily Mail this week that Joanna Lumley will have a role in the third season of BBC’s chickclick drama, Mistresses, which will start filming in April 2010. Woo-hoo! I was sure season two was the last with the way they ended the season....
Ok, I came of age in the 80s and loved, loved, loved The Police, but Sting today? Pfft. Every time I think of the $20 I wasted buying Mrs. Sting’s cookbook — the most arrogant cookbook I’ve ever laid hands on if there is such a thing! — I’m driven to...
