By Merilee Kern, ‘The Luxe List’ Executive Editor This holiday season give yourself—or the wishful, burgeoning or accomplished master chef in your life—cool tools of the culinary trade. Not only can killer kitchenware products elevate their gourmet meal game, you may just reap the tasty rewards in kind. Consider this crop of tasty kitchen tchotchkes […]
How Do Loud, Screaming, Repetitive TV, Video, or Radio Food Ads Interrupt Signals in Your Brain?
Could food addiction to the most addictive foods: meat, cheese, chocolate, and sugar be reinforced by sudden screams, sirens, and fast, repetitive clicking noises underlying the audio portion of TV and radio food advertisements? Is it possible that watching TV food ads that begin suddenly with no warning just a blast of loud screams or an ambulance siren […]
The Gathering:A DISTURBING AND DIFFICULT GATHERING OF EMOTIONS AND MEMORIES
The blurb says that The Gathering is a family epic. However to call the Gathering a family epic would be erroneous. It is about memories between a brother and a sister, but more importantly it is about memories and fears. Veronica is eight years old when she witnesses abuse of her brother Liam at the […]