Posted in Movies on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
It was a dreary, rainy weekend, so it was a good time to watch an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. When tennis pro Tony Wendice learns of his wife’s affair with an American mystery writer, Wendice decides to take his revenge by killing her. He works out the perfect murder, but forgets that even the best laid […]
Posted in Movies on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
A long, but engaging film about Hitler’s last days. The movie begins with Nazi Germany already falling to Russia and the Allies, while Hitler remains delusional and optimistic that Germany will come out on top. Bruno Ganz does an incredible job of playing the paranoid Hitler. An interesting look at the end of WWII through […]
Posted in Food on Sep 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Well, my weekly CSA updates quickly turned into barely-monthly-updates. Last night, we made apple crisp to use some of the apples we’ve been getting every week. We haven’t touched our vegetables in the last three weeks, and they’ve been piling up in our refrigerator. I decided to make use of as many […]
Posted in Books on Sep 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme
Once I read “Julie and Julia” and started trying out some recipes from “Mastering the Art of French Cooking“, I became more interested in Julia Child. This book tells her story of the years she and her husband, Paul Child, lived in France. Julia became interested in cooking late in life […]