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 […]
National Day of Service ‘Not Just This One Day’
By Alix Hines and Katherine Johnson Capital News Service RICHMOND – When Ashley Pelli decided to teach to her home-schooled daughter the importance of citizenship, she found the best way to do it was by example. Pelli chose to start by helping homeless and transient people. “You could hand them some change, but […]
Fried Tempe
Tempeh, or tempe in Javanese, is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. It is especially popular on the island of Java, where it is a staple source of protein. Like tofu, tempeh is made from soybeans, but tempeh is a whole soybean product with different […]
Ideas for Giving a Baby Shower
Baby Shower Ideas Who should host a baby shower? Anyone but the expectant mother (and father). A baby shower can be thrown by friends, relatives and/or coworkers. To keep parties small and intimate, coordinate with the mother-to-be’s friends and family and have each group throw her a separate shower. How far in advance should you […]
Brown Bag Lunch Recipes
Brown Bag Lunch Recipes Pack A Brown Bag Lunch That Won’t Be Traded Kids Lunches Lunchbox Recipes One of the best parts of shopping for school supplies is picking out the lunch box that your child will love to tote to school every day. Once you have the equipment, you need to fill it! You’ve […]
Part 4: el Camino de Santiago
LARRY My first night was spent in a refugio or alberque, in Estella. When I signed in I was reminded of an old Bogart movie, the smoky back room at a pool hall or some places I’d frequented that were less than the best places to be. James had told me to mess up my […]